The Painter, gilder and varnisher's companion : containing rules and regulations in everything relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, and glass-staining : numerous useful and valuable receipts, tests for the detection of adulterations in oils, colours, & c. : and a statement of the diseases and accidents to which painters, gilders, and varnishers are peculiarly liable, with the simplest and best methods of prevention and remedy
A trade manual of 1850 published in Philadelphia by Henry C. Baird, offering practical rules, recipes, and adulteration tests for painters, gilders, and varnishers. The four pictures are plain line diagrams of apparatus and furnace sections, including a gilder's machine with a rotating wheel and a cross-section of a furnace with its arches and doors, useful to a designer wanting technical schematic drawings with lettered labels and hatched shading.
