Excerpt from How Shall We Paint Our Houses?: A Popular Treatise on the Art of House-Painting: Plain and Decorative; Showing the Nature, Composition and Mode of Production of Paints and Painters' Colors, and Their Proper and Harmonious Combination and Arrangement
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