Name | "The Circle of the Mechanical Arts" |
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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). |
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Dimensions | 8.5x11 | |