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The Decorative Painters' and Glaziers' Guide; containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogany, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood ; verd antique, dove sienna, porphyry, white veined, and other marbles ; in oil or distemper colour ; designs for decorating apartments... also a complete body of information on the art of staining and painting on glass ; plans for the erection of apparatus for annealing it ; and the method of joining figures together by leading, with examples from ancient windows
by WHITTOCK (Nathaniel)
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About This Item
London: Published by Isaac Taylor Hinton, 1827. First edition, 4to, vi, [2], [7]-332, [2]pp., with 85 lithographed plates of which 30 are hand coloured, each of the grain and marble plates touched with gum arabic, some occasional light foxing, front inner hinge shaken, contemporary calf, rubbed, crude cloth reback. Influential work on the practices of interior decoration and including instructions on artificial wood and marble paint finishes, mural painting, stained and painted glass etc. Provenance: With the red morocco bookplate lettered in gilt of 'John Gosling 1832'. Abbey, Life, 81; Duncan, Bibliography of glass, 14698.
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- Forest Books
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- Title
- The Decorative Painters' and Glaziers' Guide; containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogany, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood ; verd antique, dove sienna, porphyry, white veined, and other marbles ; in oil or distemper colour ; designs for decorating apartments... also a complete body of information on the art of staining and painting on glass ; plans for the erection of apparatus for annealing it ; and the method of joining figures together by leading, with examples from ancient windows
- Author
- WHITTOCK (Nathaniel)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Published by Isaac Taylor Hinton, 1827
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