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This book is printed one copy at a time when you order it. There is no warehouse shelf of these — your copy goes on the press after you check out. Hardcover binding takes longer than paperback. Please allow 3–4 weeks from order to delivery.

About this book

Every painter has stood before a customer with a color to match and no formula to mix it — John L. King's Color Mixing Guide (1923) was written to end that moment. Addressed to artists, painters, decorators, printing pressmen, and show card writers, it is a practical book of color-mixing knowledge: how colors are made, how they behave together, and how to mix the tints, shades, and matches the job demands.

The guide covers the working painter's real problems: matching an existing color, mixing clean tints without muddying, understanding what each pigment does in the mixture, and getting consistent results from one batch to the next. Written for the trade, it speaks plainly — the kind of knowledge that used to be passed from journeyman to apprentice, set down so the self-taught man could learn it too.

For the modern sign painter, decorative artist, or restorer, the 1923 guide is a window into the traditional oil-color palette and the mixing logic of the pre-modern paint shop — still sound, still usable, and a useful check on the habits of the tube-color era.

For sign painters, house painters, decorative artists, show-card writers, art students, and anyone who mixes color by hand. The 1923 painter's answer to "how do I mix that color?

Details: 6×9" hardcover (case laminate), black and white interior, cream paper.

⚠️ Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1923 printing, and the print quality of your book reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1923 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1923 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

Printed on demand by IngramSpark. One copy at a time — no inventory, no waste.