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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. Please allow 2–3 weeks from order to delivery.

About this book

Eight hundred and thirty pages. One trade, entire. George D. Armstrong's 1914 Modern Painting: Hardwood Finishing and Sign Writing is the closest thing the painting trade ever got to an encyclopedia — a single massive manual covering house painting, hardwood finishing, graining, marbling, varnishing, and sign writing as practiced in the early twentieth century.

Armstrong wrote for the working painter who needed answers on the job: how to prepare a surface, which materials to use, how to grain oak or marble a column, how to finish hardwood so it glows, and how the sign writer's department lettered everything from storefronts to show cards. The 830-page scale lets the book go deep where smaller manuals skim — formulas, methods, and trade practice accumulated across a career.

For restoration painters, historic-homeowners, and sign painters, this 1914 volume is a working reference, not a coffee-table book. Matching a century-old finish? Armstrong describes how it was done originally. Researching period paint materials? They're catalogued here. Collectors of antique painting manuals consider it one of the essential large-format trade texts.

Whether you paint for a living or preserve the painted past, Armstrong's Modern Painting belongs on your shelf. 830 pages of trade knowledge from the days when the painter did it all.

Details: 6×9" paperback, 830 pages, 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This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document.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 1914 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 1914 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 1914 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.