concise treatise eccentric turning added (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo, iv + pp152 plus 50 b/w figures and table to rear. Hardcover no dust jacket. Tan cloth binding with gilt titles to spine in very good condition with a little shelf wear to top & tail of spine, rubbing to tips and a little rubbing to boards. Inside a little toning to pages and a little sporadic foxing, otherwise in very good clean condition. Nathaniel Engleheart was an expert on turning with two of the ivory turned pieces he made at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. A very nice copy of this edition, the first edition being published in 1852 by Pelham Richardson. Scarce.

4to, pp. iv, 152, [2] + 16 plates. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards blocked in blind, front board additionally blocked in gilt. Somewhat soiled and spotted. Boards rubbed, edges worn, rebacked preserving just the titled portion of spine. Armorial bookplate of Frederic Coleman Hunter to pastedown. Nathaniel Brown Engleheart (1790-1869) was the son of the miniaturist George Engleheart and became a proctor in the Doctor?s Commons in the last decades of its operation. The work evidently left him time to refine the art of turning, and two pieces of his work in ivory are now in the V&A. This book, his main publication and one of the earliest such treatises in English, was republished in 1867 by Holtzapffel, with his name attached.

4to, pp. iv, 152, [2] + 16 plates. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards blocked in blind, front board additionally blocked in gilt. A few minor spots. Cloth slightly marked and rubbed, a touch of wear to spine ends. Modern bookplate to pastedown. Nathaniel Brown Engleheart (1790-1869) was the son of the miniaturist George Engleheart and became a proctor in the Doctor?s Commons in the last decades of its operation. The work evidently left him time to refine the art of turning, and two pieces of his work in ivory are now in the V&A. This book, his main publication and one of the earliest such treatises in English, was republished in 1867 by Holtzapffel, with his name attached.