cabinet makers guide rules instructions art von siddons (12 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 8.35x5.43x0.63 inches. In Stock.

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0 Very good. moderate shelfwear, bumped corners, wear and loss to the spine lable, structurally sound, missing blank flyleaf and inch across the top of the title page. Includes the plates and chart though the plates are dampstained, oddly the rest of the.

Fifth edition, considerably augmented by the addition of several new articles, receipts, &c., 12mo, xvi, 233, [1] + 12pp., of adverts, engraved frontispiece of the cabinet maker's workshop (lightly waterstained to lower margin), 4 engraved geometrical plates, cont. cloth-backed boards, slight tear, orig. printed title label to spine. "The rapid sale of Four Editions of this work has induced the Editor to offer to the public a Fifth which, from the many important additions made, he trusts will now form a complete pocket companion for the Cabinet Maker, as well as a necessary and useful addition to his tool- chest: and though the price is somewhat enhanced, from the plates and extra matter contained in it, still that will not be found, on a comparison with the former work, to be such as will put it out of the workman's power to avail himself of the benefits a book of general reference like the present is calculated to afford."Advertisement.

Cloth. Zustand: Good Only. Unnamed (illustrator). A charming fifth edition copy of G. A. Siddons's guide to cabinet making. Containing detailed instructions and explanations of terms used in the trade. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four engraved plates. Featuring twelve pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear, though last page is missing. In a quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, a trifle rubbed with marks to boards. Spine label rubbed and sunned. Front hinge has failed. Internally, binding is tender. Final page detached, not present. Pages are generally bright with some spotting. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown. Good Only. book.

108pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First American edition, reprinted from a London edition. 108pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first furniture finisher's manual published in America, with recipes and lists of requisite tools and implements. Robert D. Mussey, in his introduction to the 1987 reprint of the 1827 American edition, points out that this work contains the first mention of glass-paper (sandpaper). Uncommon and interesting. Not in American Imprints. Rink 1793 Publisher's lettered boards, with ad on lower board. Nicely rebacked and re-cornered with sheep at an early date. Pen starts and old notes on flyleaves, ownership signature of Ezra Coldham First American edition, reprinted from a London edition.

Printed paper covered boards. xii, 95 pp., [1]. 16mo. Printed by T. C. Hansard. The first known edition of this book was published in 1809, though it was then only 36 pages and the author identified as Peter Weber. A later edition, only slightly expanded, was published in 1818, and the author was identified as Thomas Howard. This new edition was greatly enlarged and published in 1825 (there was also a longer edition published in 1825 by a different publisher). The author is identified in later editions as G. A. Siddons. The edition offered here is the basis for the first American edition by Ansel Phelps published the same year as well as the source of all later editions into the 20th century. Robert Mussey, in his introduction to a reprint of the 1827 American edition, points out that this work contains the first mention of French polishing and of glass-paper (sandpaper). Hundreds of thousands of copies were printed in the fourteen known and over seventy pirated editions. "Students of furniture and finishing history should find this an invaluable source for the interpretation of our antique furniture heritage." Advertisements on back cover. Scarce. OCLC shows only 5 copies of this edition. Spine repaired with binder's tape, boards rubbed with a few chips at the edges, a few scuff marks, one affecting the word 'wood' on the front board and one affecting a few letters of the advertisements on the rear board, front endpapers soiled, fly leaf torn and split from gutter, small chips to top edge of a1 and a2 probably from opening roughly, some staining to last page of index and blank, occasional finger soiling, but overall remarkably clean, crisp, and tight, and even scarcer thus as most copies and manuals of this nature usually disintegrated from use. A new edition with considerable additions; including an appendix, containing several valuable tables.

Zustand: Good. Fifth Edition. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed and edgeworn. Lacks frontis. 150mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). viii, 239pp. Four plates with diagrams. Half-leather hardback with marbled boards.