A practical manual of house-painting, graining, marbling and sign-writing : containing full information on the processes of house-painting in oil and distemper, the formation of letters and practice of sign-writing, the principles of decorative art, a course of elementary drawing for house-painters, writers, etc., and a collection of useful receipts ; with nine coloured illustrations of woods and marbles, and numerous wood engravings
A trade manual by Ellis A. Davidson, published in London by Crosby Lockwood & Son in 1888 for house-painters, grainers and sign-writers, covering oil and distemper work, lettering, decorative principles and elementary drawing. The wood engravings are mostly geometric construction diagrams — squares, circles, arcs and lettered intersection points in heavy line with dashed diagonals — alongside alphabet and ornament plates, useful as line stock, diagram motifs and letterform reference.
