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• Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice (Marina Del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, 1995), ed. by Arie Wallert, Erma Hermens, and Marja Peek (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

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• Künstler und Werkstatt der Spätgotik (in German; Augsburg: Dr. Filser Verlag, 1923), by Hans Huth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Is your contemporary painting more temporary than you think? Vital technical information for the present-day artist (International Book Company, 1962), by Louis Pomerantz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mérimée on oil painting (Whittaker & Co., 1839), by J.-F.-L. Mérimée and William B. Sarsfield Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studio secrets (Watson-Guptill publications, inc., 1944), by Frederic Taubes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The materials of the painter's craft in Europe and Egypt, from earliest times to the end of the XVIIth century, with some account of their preparation and use. (T.N. Foulis, 1910), by A. P. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traité d'aquarelle : renfermant un grand nombre de types, dessins, sépias et aquarelles, paysages, fleurs et fruits, figures (A. Fouraut, 1886), by Armand Cassagne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pigments and mediums of the old masters: with a special chapter on microphotographic study of brushwork (Macmillan, 1914), by A. P. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary materials and techniques in the fine arts (Education Off., Brooklyn Museum, 1936), by Brooklyn Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of contemporary materials and techniques in the fine arts. (Education office. Brooklyn museum, 1938), by Brooklyn Museum. Education division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palettes d'artistes, avec 5 illustrations hors texte. (E. Sansot, 1912), by Abel Letalle and Galerie Georges Petit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Original treatises, dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth centuries on the arts of painting, in oil, miniature, mosaic, and on glass; of gilding, dyeing, and the preparation of colours and artificial gems; preceded by a general introduction; with translations, prefaces, and notes. (J. Murray, 1849), by Mary P. Merrifield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts about processes, pigments, and vehicles : a manual for art students (Macmillan, 1895), by A. P. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Materials for permanent painting; a manual for manufacturers, art dealers, artists and collectors (D. Van Nostrand Company, 1911), by Maximilian Toch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ladies' manual of art, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art : embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel, crayon, drawing, taxidermy, etc. (American Mutual Library Association, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The materials of the painter's craft in Europe and Egypt : from earliest times to the end of the XVIIth century, with some account of their preparation and use : containing seven reproductions in colour & other illustrations (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1911), by A. P. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook for painters and art students on the character and use of colours, their permanent or fugitive qualities, and the vehicles proper to employ : also short remarks on the practice of painting in oil and water colours (Baillière, Tindall, and Cox, 1880), by William J. Muckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petit manuel de dessin à la mine de plomb, aux trois crayons,au fusain et au pastel, d'après les conseils de nos premiers artistes ([Typ. Plon frères, 1860), by Susse frères (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canvas adhesives ([New York, 1939), by Raphael Doktor and N.Y.) Federal Art Project (New York (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Saggio analitico-chimico sopra i colori minerali : e mezzi di procurarsi gli artefatti, gli smalti, e le vernici (Nella Stamperia di Lino Contedini, 1816), by Lorenzo Marcucci and Pietro Palmaroli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel des jeunes artistes et amateurs en peinture (F.G. Levrault, 1832), by P. L. Bouvier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des procédés matériels employés dans ce genre de peinture (Huzard, 1830), by J.-F.-L. Mérimée (page images at HathiTrust)
• The decorator's assistant : a modern guide for decorative artists and amateurs, painters, writers, gilders ... . (Crosby Lockwood, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on the air brush (S.W. Frazer, 1915), by Samuel Wilson Frazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chimie des couleurs pour la peinture à l'eau et à l'huile; comprenant l'historique, la synonymie, les propriétés physiques et chimiques, la préparation, les variétés, les falsifications, l'action toxique et l'emploi des coleurs anciennes et nouvelles. (Masson, 1855), by Jules Lefort (page images at HathiTrust)
• Malmaterialienkunde als Grundlage Maltechnik : für Kunststudierende, Künstler, Maler, Lackierer, Fabrikantern und Händler (Springer, 1909), by A. Eibner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manuel des jeunes artistes et amateurs en peinture (F.G. Levrault, 1827), by P. L. Bouvier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pigments (Crosby Lockwood & Co., 1887), by H. C. Standage and South Kensington School of Art (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook for painters and art students on the character, nature, and use of colours, their permanent, or fugitive qualities, and the vehicles proper to employ : with an appendix giving permanent hues and tints :also short remarks on the practice of painting in oil and water colours (Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1893), by William J. Muckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of young artists and amateurs in oilpainting, being chiefly a condensed compilation from the celebrated manual of Bouvier ... appended a new explanatory and critical vocabulary (J. Wiley, 1854), by Laughton Osborn and P. L. Bouvier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of oilpainting (Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Laughton Osborn and P. L. Bouvier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oil colours and mediums (Reeves & Sons, 1892), by H. C. Standage (page images at HathiTrust)
• A descriptive handbook of modern water-colour pigments : illustrated with seventy-two colour washes skilfully gradated by hand on Whatman's drawing paper : with an introductory essay on the recent water-colour controversy (Winsor & Newton, in the 1900s), by J. Scott Taylor and Winsor & Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chemistry of paints and painting (Seeley, 1892), by A. H. Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der Oelmalerei für Künstler und Kunstfreunde (C.A. Schwetschke und Sohn, 1895), by P. L. Bouvier and Adolf Ehrhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendium a l'usage des artistes peintres. (Eugène Vanderhaeghen, 1881), by Jacques Blockx (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elementi tecnici della pittura (Fratelli Bocca, 1905), by Gaetano Previati (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Décoration céramique au feu de moufle (Gauthier-Villars et fils :, 1893), by E. Guenez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Mineral-Malerei : Neues Verfahren zur Herstellung witterungsbeständiger Wandgemälde : technisch-wissenschaftliche Anleitung (A. Hartleben's Verlag, 1881), by Adolf Wilhelm Keim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original treatises : dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth centuries on the arts of painting, in oil, miniature, mosaic, and on glass; of gilding, dyeing, and the preparation of colours and artificial gems; preceded by a general introduction; with translations, prefaces, and notes (J. Murray, 1849), by Mary P. Merrifield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The materials of the painter's craft in Europe and Egypt : from earliest times to the end of the XVIIth century, with some account of their preparation and use (T.N. Foulis, 1910), by A. P. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Technik der Malerei : ein Handbuch für Künstler und Dilettanten (E. Haberland, 1901), by Paul Schultze-Naumburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The theory and practice of painting in oil and water colours, for landscape and portraits : including ... a manual of lithography (D. Bogue, 1854), by T. H. Fielding (page images at HathiTrust)
• The handmaid to the arts. (Printed for J. Nourse, 1764), by Robert Dossie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The etcher's handbook : giving an account of the old processes, and of processes recently discovered (Charles Roberson & Co., 1875), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and Charles Roberson & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sul modo di dipingere, di dorare, di verniciare, di stuccare e di tingere (Tip. e lib. Andrea Santini, 1842), by Bonajuto Vecchio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anweisung zu der Mahler-Kunst, worinnen nebst derselben Fürtreflichkeit und Nutzen gezeiget wird, was einer zum gründlichen Verstand der Mahler-Kunst wissen, und wie er sich durch Ubung darinnen perfectioniren soll, nebst einem gründlichen Unterricht von der Reiss- und Zeichen- wie auch Illuminir-Kunst, oder dem rechten Gebrauch der Wasser-Farben. (Bey Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1750), by Willem Goeree and Friedrich Lankisch der Jüngere Erben (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse on the chemistry of artists' paints, vehicles and varnishes, held at the Art Students League of New York and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1922-1923. (F. W. Weber, 1923), by Frederick W. Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mali︠a︡rnoe di︠e︡lo : rukovodstvo k ėkspertizi︠e︡ krasok, mali︠a︡rnykh materīalov i k proizvodstvu raznago roda rabot (T-vo "Pechatni︠a︡ S.P. I︠A︡kovleva", 1887), by I. Ossovet︠s︡kiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Air brush art. (The Signs of the times publishing company, 1946), by George W. Kadel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The artist's arcanum, or the essence of a variety of useful and entertaining arts, carefully and perspicuously laid down, the greater part from actual experiments (By Fred. Thos. Burton, 1823), by Frederick Thomas Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of miniature painting : comprising the necessary instructions for its acquirement (Winsor and Newton, 1905), by Charles William Day, May Tayler, and Winsor & Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Tempera rediviva" (E. Haberland, 1909), by Alfons von Pereira Arnstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peinture a l'huile suivie du traité de la restauration des tableaux (Desloges, 1856), by R. de Lasalle and J. P. Thénot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité général des peintures à l'eau, ou, Lavis à l'encre de Chine : pour l'architecture, en couleurs pour les cartes et plans topographiques, à la gouache, la sépia, l'aquarelle, la détrempe, la fresque et la miniature, dans toutes leurs applications industrielles sur papier, carton, ivoire, bois, parchemin, peau de vélin et autres, sur étoffes, soie, velours, etc. (Le Bailly, 1881), by Goupil (Frédéric-Auguste-Antoine) (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the materials used in painting : with a few remarks on varnishing and cleaning pictures (G. Rowney, 1859), by Charles Martel and George Rowney and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité pratique de peinture sur faïence et porcelaine : a l'usage des débutants (Maison Berville, 1886), by Ris-Paquot (page images at HathiTrust)
• M.P.L. Bouvier's Handbuch der Oelmalerei für Künstler und Kunstfreunde. (C.A. Schwetschke und Sohn, 1875), by P. L. Bouvier and Adolf Ehrhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook for painters and art students on the character, nature, and use of colours, their permanent or fugitive qualities, and the vehicles proper to employ : also short remarks on the practice of painting in oil and water colours (Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1882), by William J. Muckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuale per i dilettanti di pittura : a olio, acquarello, miniatura, guazzo, tempera, encausto, pastello, fotopittura, ecc. (paesaggio, figura, fiori, cartelli, reclame, ecc.) (Ulrico Hoepli, 1922), by Giuseppe Ronchetti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook for the preservation of pictures : containing practical instructions for cleaning, lining, repairing, and restoring oil paintings, with remarks on the distribution of works of art in houses and galleries, their care and preservation (Winsor and Newton, 1851), by Henry Mogford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compendium of painting : compendium à l'usage des artistes peintres et des amateurs de tableaux (P. Young, 1910), by Jacques Blockx and J.-B. Dumas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gründlicher Unterricht zur Bereitung aller Farb-Materialen, Verfertigung des Lackfirnisses, und der Metall-, Lack-, Tusch-, Pastell-, Wachs-, Email-, Fresco-, Wasch-, und Seiden-Farben, der Bronzirung, Vergoldung und Lackirkunst (Joseph Lindauer'sche Buchhandlung, 1825), by H. F. A. Stöckel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oil & tempera painting; 500 questions and answers. (Watson-Guptill, 1957), by Frederic Taubes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of airbrush technique (American Photographic Pub. Co., 1946), by J. Carroll Tobias (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sketching from nature in water-colours (London ; Paris ; New York. : Cassell, Petter & Galpin & Co., [between 1870 and 1879?], in the 1870s), by Aaron Penley, Belle Sauvage Works, and Petter Cassell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artists' oil paints (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1963, 1963), by United States. National Bureau of Standards (page images at HathiTrust)

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