How To Paint. Directions For Applying Paint And Varnish With Best Results. (Cover Title)

Sears, Roebuck & Co., Cleveland, Ohio

Publication: Sears, Roebuck & Co, 1904, Chicago

First edition. 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" pictorial wrappers, 16 pp., illustrated. Back cover features a picture of the Sears, Roebuck & Company's Paint Factory. A trade promotion "as this book is merely intended to give instructions to the users of our ready mixed paints...we have not stated anything about prices." The very next paragraph, however, gives examples of their Seroco paint pricing "at a very small advance over the actual cost of manufacturing." OCLC list only one copy of the 1905 edition and none of the 1st, 1904 edition. Full of practical information about applying paint, varnish, shellac, wood fillers, etc. Very good copy

Inventory Number: 44161