Town and country house painting : containing hints on painting and other useful information.
A trade manual on house painting issued in 1884 by the paint makers Harrison Bros. & Co. for ordinary householders and decorators. The pictures are plain printed text pages, each with a decorative corner ornament in brown ink showing a palette, brushes, stars, foliage and a monogram tag, with page numbers set in small oval cartouches. A designer could take the scrolled corner frames and the palette-and-brush motif as period decorative borders for trade or heritage-style layouts.
