The practical printer and instructor, containing thorough information in the art of modern painting, varnishing, etc.;
A trade manual on house and industrial painting, graining and varnishing, written by D. S. McDannell and printed in Chicago by Church, Goodman and Donnelley in 1868 for working painters and decorators. The plates in the index are wood-engraved horizontal ornament bands with birds among scrolling acanthus and open flowers, plus the Library of Congress patterned endpapers; useful as rule-and-header decoration, repeat motifs, and period tailpieces.
