The carriage painters' illustrated manual : containing a treatise on the art, science, and mystery of coach, carriage, and car painting ... with an appendix, containing useful suggestions, receipts, etc., a list of the principal varnish makers and dealers, a correct list of carriage and wagon-makers in New York City : adapted to the wants of every painter
A painters' trade manual by Franklin B. Gardner, published in New York by S.R. Wells in 1877, teaching coach, carriage and car painting to working painters. Its pictures are line drawings of shaded three-dimensional block lettering, a sign-letter alphabet with outlined A, B, C and M, a canvas-and-pole tool, and an outlined R, showing how letterforms gain depth through hatched side faces that a designer could borrow for dimensional type.
