PURE OIL / TINTED GLOSS / READY MIXED PAINT / JOHN LUCAS & CO. / New York. Philadelphia. Chicago. / 1848 colored cut of a Victorian house, 3 x 3 1/2 inches 1894 / followed

by 13 paragraphs of promotional text .

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Philadelphia, PA? : John Lucas & Co., 1894. Broadsheet, 14 x 6 1/2 inches, folded to oblong 8vo 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches . The promotional text for the paints includes a sales pitch, hints on selecting colors, directions for using the paints, a rule of thumb for determining the amount of paint needed, etc. Romaine describes several catalogues for John Lucas & Co. OCLC locates several similar publications for John Lucas & Co., but apparently not this

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