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Subject Terms House painting.

1. Smith's Art of house-painting : improved by Wm. Butcher : and including every particular relating to that useful art, with the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working, oil-colours, oil-cloth varnish and colour, milk-paint, &c. : the whole adapted to the meanest capacity, so as to enable any person to paint and grain, in oil-colours, all sorts of timber, or iron-work, in houses or ships : as gates, doors, posts, pales, palisadoes, and every thing that requires paint, whether for beauty or for preservation, from the influence of the weather; with the manner of painting window-transparencies, and other useful recipes.

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Creator:: Smith, John, 1647 or 1648–1727?
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: iv, 36 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A practical manual of house-painting, graining, marbling and sign-writing : containing full information on the processes of house-painting in oil and distemper, the formation of letters and practice of sign-writing, the principles of decorative art, a course of elementary drawing for house-painters, writers, etc. : and a collection of useful receipts : with nine coloured illustrations of wood and marbles, and numerous wood engravings /by Ellis A. Davidson.

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Creator:: Davidson, Ellis A., -1878
Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: xxi, 394, [4], 32, 16 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Every man his own house-painter and colourman : the whole forming a complete system for the amelioration of the noxious quality of common paint ; a number of invaluable inventions, discoveries and improvements, acquired by half a century's practical experience ; and a variety of other particulars that relate to house-painting in general / by T. H. Vanherman.

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Creator:: Vanherman, T. H
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: xxiv, 111 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The laws of harmonious colouring, adapted to interior decorations, &c. to which is now added, An attempt to define æsthetical taste. By D. R. Hay ...

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Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 103 p. ill. (diagrs.) plates (part col.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The laws of harmonious colouring, adapted to interior decorations with observations on the practice of house painting. By D. R. Hay.

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Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: ix, 198 p. col. front., diagr. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The laws of harmonious colouring : adapted to house painting / by D.R. Hay ...

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Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: 68 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The laws of harmonious colouring, adapted to interior decorations, manufactures, and other useful purposes. By D.R. Hay ...

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Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 72 p. ill. (diagrs.) col. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts