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 132
here is a maximum ofconvenience with a minimum of bulk. The weight ofthe whole is very trifling, and the handle is so placedthat the box is well balanced in the hand and may becarried about without trouble. It need not be re-marked how very superior such a mttlttun in parvomust be to the cumbrous… … SIGN WRITING. We append here an illustra-tion of a candlestick for writers,decorators, and others, whoare obliged to carry on theirlabours often at great incon-venience. The value of thecontrivance here broughtunder the notice of the reader,needs no word of comment toensure for it ready adoption,as…
