Excerpt from The Artist and Tradesman's Companion: Embracing the Manufacture and the Application of Varnishes to Painting and Other Branches of the Arts; Instructions for Working Enamel, Foil, Etc;; The Art of Glazing, Imitation of Gold Color, Tortoise-Shell, Marble, and Art of Staining Wood and Metal This little work has been prepared with great care, for the purpose of making it practically useful to a large class of persons engaged almost entirely in pur suits Of this nature, and also to aid any and every one in 'performing such duties in the arts as will usually be needed, where an experienced artist can not be found; as is the case very Often in that por tion of this country, where the arts and sciences have not made such progress as we witness in the older settled parts, as the eastern and middle states. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.