Editor's name from back flap of dust jacket.

Signed on lining page "For Marianna 11 Feb 2006"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200) and index.

The art of the decorator -- Paints & finishes -- Colors -- Whites & neutrals -- Hardwick white -- Entrance hall stone -- Adam white -- Housekeeper's drab -- Lamp room gray -- Washed-down white -- Hicks white -- Goldfinger white -- Outside stone -- Studio white -- Reds -- Pantheon red -- 1811 red -- Colt hoare red -- Picture gallery red -- Viceroy pink -- Lancaster pink -- Geranium red -- Cloister pink -- Historic red -- Architectural pink -- Carriage red -- Passage puce -- Willow road red -- Modern red -- Ointment pink -- Yellows -- Gone-away yellow -- Vyne yellow -- Venetian yellow -- Jumper yellow -- Sudbury yellow -- Buckram yellow -- Passage yellow -- Octagon yellow -- Connecting yellow -- Greens -- Palmer green -- Pea green -- Mitchell green -- Calke green -- Feasting green -- Stipple green -- Lutyens green -- Celadon green -- 30s green -- Lunch green -- Green stone -- Blues -- Parlor blue -- Irish Georgian blue -- Ballroom blue -- Cook's blue -- Chirk blue -- Lutyens blue -- Boudin blue -- Knight's blue -- Biddesden blue -- Jubilee blue -- Goldfinger blue -- Monster blue.

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