House decorating and painting
William Norman Brown's House Decorating and Painting, published in London and New York in 1900, is a practical trade manual for house painters and decorators. The four pictures show brushes and their parts in engraved detail: a tapered handle with a ferrule, a row of pointed bristle tips, a bristle block, and a flat-ended tool with a long curved handle. A designer could take crisp, hatched wood-engraving textures and the clean, simple outlines of tool forms.
