Author: MASURY, John W.
Title: How Shall We Paint Our Houses? A Popular Treatise on House-Painting: Plain and Decorative.
Description: NY, Appleton 1873. Octavo publisher's cloth; 216pp. A bit used but solid and decent, quite good. With the inscriptions of Tasmanians J.S. Deane and James F. Deane, presumably both parts of Deane and Sons - painters, decorators, signwriters, gilders and designers of Launceston for some forty years from 1866. ¶ First published in 1868 and reprinted a few times over the next couple of decades.

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