The Painter, gilder and varnisher's companion : comprising the manufacture and test of pigments, the art of painting, graining, marbling, staining, sign-writing, varnishing, glass-staining, and gilding on glass ..
A trade manual from 1900 published in Philadelphia by Henry Carey Baird & Co., aimed at working painters, gilders and varnishers, covering pigments, graining, marbling and sign-writing. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of mechanical equipment such as grinders, mills and crank-driven machines, drawn in clean outline with fine hatching for shadow. A designer might borrow the crisp engraved line and the hatched shading for vintage industrial diagrams.
