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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

A. R. Hussey's 1916 The Sign Painter: The Best Ways to Learn Sign Painting is the self-teacher's book — written for the beginner with no master to apprentice under, only determination and a brush. Hussey's premise is that sign painting can be learned systematically: the right materials, the right practice order, the alphabets built up stroke by stroke, and the layout principles that turn letters into signs. The book is a complete correspondence-style course, designed to take a novice to professional competence.

The 1916 instruction is plain and encouraging, in the best tradition of the trade manuals: brush handling first, then the single-stroke alphabets, then shaded and fancy letters, then spacing, balance, and finished work. Hussey understands the beginner's discouragements and writes to overcome them — every lesson is a small, achievable step, and the steps add up to a trade.

For today's self-taught sign painters, Hussey's book is the period answer to the modern question of where to start: the 1916 course, unchanged, still works. For lettering students, it is a complete first education in the brush — honest, progressive, and written by a teacher who believed anyone willing to practice could learn the trade.

The beginner's sign-painting course from 1916. For aspiring sign painters, lettering students, and the self-taught craftsman.

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This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document.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 1916 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 1916 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 1916 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.