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Whittock was "a prolific writer of instruction books",<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=V87xpO3o3F0C&pg=PA95 ''About faces: physiognomy in nineteenth-century Britain''], Sharrona Pearl, p. 96</ref><ref>[[Hugh Murray (York historian)|Hugh Murray]], ''Nathaniel Whittock's bird's-eye view of the City of York in the 1850s'', Friends of York City Art Gallery, 1988</ref> on drawing and other subjects, such as ''The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide'' (1828), ''On the construction and decoration of the shop fronts of London'' (1840), and ''The complete book of trades, or the parents' guide and youths' instructor'' (1837). The full title of the first of these was:

{{quote|''The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide: containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogany, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood, Verd Antique, Dove, Sienna, Porphry, white-veined and other marbles, in oil or distemper colour; designs for decorating apartments, in accordance with the various styles of architecture; with directions for stencilling, and process for destroying damp in walls; also a complete body of information on the art of staining and painting on glass; plans for the erection of apparatus for annealing it, and the method for joining figures together by leading, with examples from ancient windows''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=NCoBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide''], by Nathaniel Whittock, online text</ref> }}

As the full title shows, the work was very comprehensive, and the preface "rails against trade secrecy" which the book was intended to dispel.<ref>Joanna Banham, Sally MacDonald, Julia Porter. ''Victorian interior style'', 1995, Studio Editions, {{ISBN |1-85891-245-8}}, {{ISBN |978-1-85891-245-5}}</ref> The work has been described as "influential" and "important" and is often cited by modern scholars of [[interior decoration]].<ref>It is described as "influential" in both: Parissien, Steven. ''Interiors: The Home Since 1700'', p. 140 (quoted) - 141, 2008, Laurence King Publishing, and ''Encyclopedia of interior design: M-Z., Volume 2'', Editors Joanna Banham, Leanda Shrimpton, Fitzroy Dearborn, p. 785, 1997, {{ISBN |1-884964-19-2}}, {{ISBN |978-1-884964-19-0}}. "Important":''Painted wood: history and conservation'', p. 245, 1998, Symposium Proceedings, Getty Conservatiomn Institute, Eds, Valérie Dorge, F. Carey Howlett, {{ISBN |0-89236-501-3}}, {{ISBN |978-0-89236-501-2}}</ref>

*{{cite book |last=Whittock |first=Nathaniel |year=1827 |title=The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhBEAQAAMAAJ |location=London |publisher=Isaac Taylor Hinton}}