HC&M: "The Circle of the Mechanical Arts"


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Name "The Circle of the Mechanical Arts"






























Catalog ID HCM4375
Year 1813
Description "The | CIRCLE | of | THE MECHANICAL ARTS; | containing | Practical Treatises | on the various | Manual Arts, Trades, and Manufactures. | ====== | By THOMAS MARTIN, Civil Engineer" ... "LONDON: | PRINTED FOR RICHARD REES, 62, PALL MALL; | Gale, Curtis, and Fenner; and Sherwood, Neeley, and Jones, Paternoster-row; | and W. Curtis, Plymouth. | --- | 1813."

Quarter-calf with marbled boards. 616 pages, plus plates.

Contents:
Architecture
Bridges
Baking
Basket-making
Block-making
Book-binding
Brewing
Brick-laying
Brick-making
Button-making
Cabinet-making
Carpentry and Joinery
Carving and Gilding
Coach-making
Comb-making
Coopering
Cotton manufacture
Currying
Cutlery
Dyeing
Engineering
Enamelling
Engraving
File-making
Founding
Glass-making
Glazing
Gold-beating and gilt wire-drawing
Gun-making
Hat-making
Japanning
Masonry
Mining
Modelling
Musical instrument-making
Nail-making
Needle-making
Painting (house)
Paper-making
Patten-making
Pin-making
Pipe-making
Planing
Plastering
Plumbery
Pottery
Printing
Rectification
Rope-making
Sawing
Shot-making
Slating
Soap-making
Staining of paper
Starch-making
Tallow and wax chandlery
Tanning
Tin-plate-working
Turning
Watch and clock-making
Weaving
Wheel-wright
Wire-drawing
Wool-combing
Practical geometry

Fire-gilding is covered in detail in the Buttonmaking chapter.

"Clock Work" illustrations (of earlier edition?) reprinted in "Horological Shop Tools 1700 to 1900", T.R. Crom, page 215.

Topic: brslac photos: 9; Founding: 10-?; Typefounding later in Founding chapter (not shown).
Added 2020-02-27 09:15:47 (updated 2022-11-19 22:16:38)
Dimensions 8.5x11