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 (1888)
Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878 · London : C. Lockwood & Son · leaf 157
hole of this portion of our subject is mostexhaustively explained in Mr. Charles HoltzapflersTurning and Mechanical Manipulation/ and fromthat excellent work, by the kind permission of theMessrs. Holtzapflel, we give the following extracts:—The general understanding of the principal differ-ences of… … thin cuttings of Beech-w ood, prepared by the opticianfor that instrument; the principal lines alone arerepresented, and these are magnified to about twicetheir linear distances for greater perspicuity. Fig. 1, which represents the horizontal or transversesection of a young tree or a branch, shows…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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