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About this book

W. F. White's 1919 Practical House, Wagon and Automobile Painter was written for a trade standing with one foot in the horse age and one in the motor age. Across 178 pages, this antique painting manual covers all three branches: house painting, the carriage painter's art of wagons and buggies, and the brand-new craft of painting automobiles.

The carriage-painting sections are the heart of the book — and a record of a vanishing art. White details the rubbing, filling, and varnishing that gave a carriage its mirror finish, the striping and scrollwork that distinguished fine work, and the color practice of the carriage shop. The automobile chapters show the same craft adapting to steel bodies and early enamels: a trade reinventing itself in real time, in 1919.

For pinstripers, restoration specialists, and carriage enthusiasts, this manual is a primary source. The striping instruction speaks directly to today's stripers; the varnishing methods explain the finishes on surviving carriages; and the automobile sections document the birth of auto-body painting. Collectors of antique painting manuals will recognize a title that straddles two eras.

Whether you stripe, restore, or simply love the craft's history, White's 1919 manual is a remarkable bridge between the carriage shop and the garage. 178 pages from the hinge of the automotive age.

Details: 6×9" paperback, 178 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This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document.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 1919 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 1919 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 1919 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

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