The materials of the painter's craft in Europe and Egypt : from earliest times to the end of the XVIIth century, with some account of their preparation and use
A 1910 London technical history by chemist A. P. Laurie, published by T.N. Foulis, tracing painters' materials and pigments in Europe and Egypt from antiquity to the seventeenth century. Its pictures include a medieval scribe at a desk, line drawings of distilling apparatus from manuscripts, and a dark magnified view of a paint film, which a designer might use for historical craft imagery or for scientific texture studies.
