Excerpt from Atwood Nichols' Practical Hand-Book

Following the above remarks, it will naturally be asked. What do you propose to supply in place of all these designs that will be more useful to a painter of ordinary capacity? We will answer by saying, that the system of Atwood 85 Nichols' simplifies the business of decorat ing walls and ceilings to the extent, that a man who knows very little or nothing about frescoing can do a creditable job by the use of our designs, stencils and colors. We do not intend to convey the idea that by the use of our method a. Common journeyman will become a magnificent artist, but we do claim that not one job in fifty will call for a more elabo rate treatment than is shown in our first edition.

It will be seen, therefore, that an ordinarily good workman can, by the use of our system, do a pretty rich job wherever it is wanted. Again, the almost endless variety that is represented by interchanging from the most ornamental down to the plainest of our combinations, and supported by the stencils for every form'yand the practical ready-mixed colors for every shade in them, will give a most satisfactory answer to the question, What do you propose to supply in place of all the works on decoration heretofore published, that will be more useful to us? It lifts a great weight off of a boss when he knows that his men will make the job of frescoing, that he has contracted to do, come out exactly like the design his customer has selected, and that, too, in the greatest of all essentials, the matching of the colors. We believe you will think as we do, in regard to this system of ours, after you have once used it, that we offer a more useful and profitable thing to the trade than has ever been given by all the elaborate and costly books on decoration that have ever been published. Employed in conjunction with papering, these designs and colors will be found eminently useful, as combinations of paper and fresco are extensively made use of and are often produc tive of the most pleasing effects.

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