Black & Decker

The name on these manuals is a tool company, not a person. Black and Decker was founded in Baltimore in 1910 and patented the pistol-grip trigger drill in 1917, and its home improvement books are produced under licence by a publisher and credited to the brand. Here's How Painting sets out twenty-nine jobs, from cutting in an edge to spraying a ceiling, in the photograph-per-step format the series uses throughout. Anyone looking for the writer will not find one named: the work is staff-produced and the brand carries it.