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About this book

Every painter mixes color; the good ones understand it. Arthur Seymour Jennings' 1906 Paint and Colour Mixing: A Practical Handbook is the vintage color-mixing bible of the painting trade — a practical guide to pigments, tints, and the matching of colors as practiced when every paint shop ground and mixed its own stock.

Jennings — a paint chemist and prolific technical author — explains what painters actually needed to know: the character of each pigment, how colors behave in oil and other media, how to match a sample, how to build tints and shades systematically, and the color theory underneath it all. This is mixing as a science and a craft together, written for the man at the bench rather than the laboratory.

For restoration painters, sign painters, and decorative artists, this 1906 handbook is still genuinely useful. Matching a historic color? Jennings describes the pigment-by-pigment method the original painter used. Understanding why old paints behave as they do? The answers are here. Fine artists and colormen will appreciate the period color theory; collectors of antique painting manuals will recognize a classic.

Whether you mix paint for a living or study the craft's history, Jennings' handbook earns its place beside the brush manuals on your shelf. Color, understood from the pigment up.

Details: 6×9" paperback, 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This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document.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 1906 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 1906 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 1906 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

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