Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg iii]: removed duplicated line ‘Black Varnish for Iron’.
[Pg iv]: line ‘Oak Wood Stain’ moved from page v to here, under ‘Oak Stain’.
[Pg 39]: ‘gold againt the’ replaced by ‘gold against the’.
[Pg 45]: ‘bottle 1-3 full’ replaced by ‘bottle ⅓ full’.
[Pg 60]: ‘dissolve 90 gains’ replaced by ‘dissolve 90 grains’.
[Pg 105]: missing letter ‘W’ inserted into alphabet caption.
[Pg 119]: removed duplicated line ‘Shaded oak’.
[Pg 121]: a blank space has been replaced by __________. It probably was meant to be ‘white lead’.
[Pg 124]: ‘nictric acid’ replaced by ‘nitric acid’.
[Pg 146]: ‘on acount of’ replaced by ‘on account of’.