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Transcriber's Note:
The advertisements on pages ix-xxiii followthe body of the book, and each page includes an image of the pagefollowed by the advertisement text in simplified format.
An additional transcriber's notes is at the end.
THIRD EDITION—PUBLISHED APRIL 15, 1903.
Practical
Carriage and Wagon
Painting
A TREATISE ON THE PAINTING OF CARRIAGES,
WAGONS AND SLEIGHS, EMBRACING
FULL AND EXPLICIT DIRECTIONS
FOR EXECUTING
ALL KINDS OF WORK.
INCLUDING
PAINTING FACTORY WORK, LETTERING,
SCROLLING, ORNAMENTING,
VARNISHING, ETC.
——WITH——
MANY TESTED RECIPES AND FORMULAS
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED
By M. C. HILLICK
CHICAGO, U. S. A.:
PRESS OF THE WESTERN PAINTER
1903
Copyright 1900
By
Charles H. Webb.
DEDICATED TO THE
VEHICLE PAINTERS OF AMERICA
AND THE WORLD.
PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.
The great demand for Practical Carriage and Wagon Paintinghas already exhausted the second edition, and orders are arriving in increasingnumbers every day. The publisher wishes to express his gratefulthanks to the trade for the generous patronage accorded the work. Notonly would we express our thanks to those who have purchased the book,but we feel deeply grateful to the trade press for the generous reviews andkindly expressions of approval tha