Search Results: Titles starting with P from Beth's Books

This book is written for the complete beginner in painting. It is written for the person who would like to paint but has no idea how to begin....The author is a former scientific researcher who became interested in the problems of creative expression through painting and after WWII established a program of teaching painting to hospital patients as a form of art therapy. It includes practical advice on making a start, types of paints and pigments, oil painting, watercolours, art as representation, and colours.Published in 1953 as Penguin Handbook PH 22. 221 pages. It is in reasonable used condition with soiling and wear to cover including creasing at corners and some rubbing and fading to spine. Binding is firm and all pages are intact. There are a couple of painty fingerprints on front cover. Pages are foxed and tanned but free from annotations.Carefully packaged and ready for immediate shipment from Sydney, Australia, with tracking.

Part of the "Craft Series", this slim volume provides valuable advice for commercial cake production, as it was in the 1940's. Includes chapters on Small Things that Constitute the Whole, Block and Round Cakes, Special Lines, Pound and Small Cakes, Season Cakes an Seasonal Display, Costings and Policy.95 pages, 21 cm square. Published by Maclaren & Sons and printed by The Garden City Press at Letchworth, Herts., England.In very good condition given it age, with signs of wear to cover and tanning to pages. Title on cover and spine is faded. Binding is tight. Annotation inside back cover in blue ink, but otherwise free from markings.This is an undated volume, but presumably was published about 1940.