1876 Jerry Thoma's Bar-Tender's Guide or How to Mix Drinks (Soft Cover)

PAINTING ON CHINA. What to Paint and How to Paint It. A HAND-BOOK OF Practical Instruction in Overglaze Painting, for the Use of Amateurs in the Decoration of Hard Porcelain. BY JAMES C. BEARD. THIS work affords elaborate information on all points necessary for success in the art of China Decoration, giving a complete list of the colors especially adapted for this purpose, with their composition, showing the changes they undergo and the effects produced when subjected to the heat required for the "fir­ ing" process. It describes all the necessary appliances, and explains their uses. It gives thorough instruction in the best methods adapted to simple or elaborate styles of decoration, with all the de­ tails from the commencement of a design to its final completion, with elegant specimen patterns printed in their appropriate colors. The thoroughly practical scope of this work will be seen by an examination of its contents, each division of the work being com­ plete, and written in a plain, familiar style, easy of comprehension and guaranteeing success : INTRODUCTION. COLORS FOR "GROUNDS." REQUISITE MATERIALS. DESIGNS FOR BORDERS. COMPLETE TABLE OF COLORS. ETRUSCAN VASES. USE OF MATERIALS. MINERAL DECALCOMANIE. MANAGEMENT OF UTENSILS. SPATTER "WORK. SELECTION OF CHINA. GILDING. PREPARATION FOR WORK. PLAIN BANDS FOR BORDERS. INSTRUCTIONS FOR TRACTNG. MONOCHROMES. USE OF COLORS. SILHOUETTES. SUBJECTS SUGGESTED. FIRING. In connection with "firing," a description is given of the best styles of kilns or muffles, with directions for their use and man­ agement, by the aid of which the amateur can "fire" his own work in any stove or range. This work is printed in the best style, on fine paper, with full page colored illustrations, and an elegant cover, executed in the most artistic manner. Small Quarto. Illuminated Flexible Cover. $1,00. DICK & FITZGERALD, Publishers,

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