The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion - Henry Carey Baird

Excerpt from The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion: Containing Rules and Regulations in Every Thing Relating to the Arts of Painting, Gilding, Varnishing, and Glass-Staining; Numerous Useful and Valuable Receipts; Test for the Detection of Adulterations in Oils, Colours, Etc;; And a Statement of the Diseas
The object of the "Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion" is to give a clear, concise, and comprehensive view of the principal operations connected with the practice of those.trades; and to embody, in as little compass and as simple language as possible, the present state of knowledge in the arts of Painting, Gilding, and Varnishing, including all the information derived from the numerous recent discoveries in Chemistry. It has been the compilers aim, while he has rejected all that appeared foreign to the subject, to omit nothing of real utility; and he trusts he shall be found to have attained it.
The best authorities have been consulted throughout, and the arrangement has been uniformly made with a view to practical purposes. The names of the different substances mentioned are those in common use; and wherever it has been found necessary to employ a term not generally known, an explanation has been given in a note or otherwise.
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