The Painters' & grainers' handbook : a complete illustrated guide to painting, graining, distempering, sign-writing, gilding, and glass embossing ... (1873)
Callingham, James · London : Brodie & Middleton : Simpkin, Marshall · leaf 119
ad pencil is a nuisance atany time, and prevents the writer from making therapid progress that he would do with a good one, tosay nothing of the annoyance it is pretty sure tooccasion. For some purposes the common camel-hair pencils are serviceable; but for those colourswhich have a lead basis, and… … LARGE SWAX-QUILL CAMEL-HAIR.