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Manufacturers of dry colors and mixed paints : colors in oil and Japan, white and colored lead, climax tinted paint : jobbers in paints, oils varnishes, brushes, etc.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1885 Heath
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heath & Milligan Mfg. Co.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- House painting.
- Paint--Catalogs.
- Paint.
- Lead based paint.
- Genre:
- Trade catalogs -- Paint.
- Physical Description:
- [17] p., [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 23 x 30 cm.
- Other Title:
- Dry colors and mixed paints
- Practical hints on decoration
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : [The Company] 170, 172, & 174 Randolph Street, [1885]
- Notes:
- Illustrations are of houses painted with various colors manufactured by this company. Four house designs shown in 12 col. plates. Each house illustrated in three combinations. Plates include exterior color schemes.
- "Very few painters ... who are pleased to be called artists, have been made familiar with the elementary facts relating to colors and the art of combining them in harmonious proportins and perhaps we can do them no greater service than to condense a few of the axioms and rules prepared and published by Dr. [Christopher] Dresser"--P. [2]
- "Plate no 3 represents a residence, erected in Hyde Park, Ill. and designed by Mr. Wm Thomas, Architect of this city. Plate no. 5 represents the private residence of Col. J.H. Bowler, Marshalltown, Iowa. This residence was designed by Messrs. Foster & Liebie, architects of Des Moines, Iowa"--P. [2]
- Plates are numberd as II, III, IV, and V.
- Binding: In mustard yellow cloth with green border and maroon letters on front board.
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