artists'-colourman's

Updated: July 17, 2026

He passed furtively down Werter Road into the High Street, and then stood a moment outside Stawley's stationery shop, which is also a library, an emporium of leather-bags, and an artists'-colourman's. He entered Stawley's blushing, trembling he a man of fifty who could not see his own toes and asked for certain tubes of colour.

Arnold Bennett - Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days