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Painting and Decorating: 



A Complete Practical Manual for House, 

 Painters and Decorators. 



Embracing the Use of Materials, Tools, and Appliances; the 



Practical Processes involved ; and the General Principles 



of Decoration, Colour, and Ornament. 



BY 



WALTER JOHN PEARCE, 



LECTURES AT THE MANCHESTER TECHNICAL SCHOOL FOR HOUSK-PAINTING AND DECOHATWG. 



In Crown 8vo. extra. With Numerous Illustrations and Plates 

 (some in Colours), including Original Designs. 12s. 6d. 



GENERAL CONTENTS. 



Introduction Workshop and Stores Plant and Appliances Brushes and 

 Tools Materials : Pigments, Driers, Painters' Oils Wall Hangings Paper 

 Hanging Colour Mixing Distempering Plain Painting Staining Varnish 

 and Varnishing Imitative Painting Grraining Marbling Grilding Sign- 

 Writing and Lettering Decoration : General Principles Decoration, in Dis- 

 temperPainted Decoration Relievo Decoration Colour Measuring and 

 Estimating Coach-Painting Ship -Painting. 



"A THOROUGHLY USEFUL BOOK . . . gives GOOD, SOUND, PRACTICAL 



INFORMATION in a CLEAR and CONCISE FORM. . . . Can be confidently 

 recommended alike to Student and Workman, as well as to those carrying on 

 business as House -Painters and Decorators." Plumber and Decorator. 



"A THOROUGHLY GOOD AND RELIABLE TEXT-BOOK. . . . So FULL and 



OMPLETE that it would be difficult to imagine how anything further could be 

 added about the Painter's craft. " Builders' Journal. 



%* MR. PEARCE'S work is the outcome of many years' practical ex- 

 perience, and will be found invaluable by all interested in the subjects 

 of which it treats. It forms the Companion- Volume to MR. GEO. HURST'S 

 well-known work on " PAINTERS' COLOURS " (see p. 76). 



LONDON: CHARLES GRIFFIN & CO,, LIMITED, EXETER STREET, STRAND. 



