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 133
FOLDING MAUL STICK, … GILDING. GuLD leaf is sold at most colour shops and artists*repositories in books containing twenty-five leaves ofgold, each leaf being carefully placed between thepaper constituting fhe book, which is first rubbed overwith red bole to prevent the gold from adhering. Thesize of the leaves is about…
