A Brief Account of the Composition and Permanence of Winsor & Newton’s Artists’ Oil and Water Colours

A Brief Account of the Composition and Permanence of Winsor & Newton’s Artists’ Oil and Water Colours

Including some notes on Oils and Varnishes

Winsor & Newton, [1941], staple-bound, slim paperback

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, a little discolouration to covers and edges, light pencil marks to some pages, foxing (see photographs)

“Two criticisms are often levelled by thoughtless people at the heads of Artists’ Colourmen and of these we have decided, as one of the leading English firms, to take some practical notice.  It is alleged -
i That Artists’ Colourmen are in the habit of selling Colours which are not permanent; and
ii that they keep Artists in ignorance of the Chemical Composition of the Colours they sell.
The answer to the first of these two criticisms sems obvious enough.  Manufacturing businesses exist, as a rule, not for the enforcement of moral laws on their customers, but for the satisfaction of the demands which those customers make; and while, for instance, we continue to be asked for Carmine and Geranium Lake, so long shall we continue to supply them.  The Artist is, in our opinion, the sole judge for his right to employ such pigments; and we, who use out best efforts to supply hi with all he requires, have no intention of excluding them from out list manufactures.  We do not assert that such colours are durable; all we do assert is that they are as durable as they can be made.”