1. Household Carpentry and Joinery. In which a full and sufficient description is given of all such timber as the Amateur may require, the Tools that he must use, and the processes to which he may have occasion to resort.
2. Ornamental & Constructional Carpentry and Joinery. In which he is led on to the higher branches of working in Wood, such as Turning, Fret-sawing, and Wood-carving; and to the erection of any Building in which wood is the principal material used; and the manufacture and mending of simple articles of Furniture, the mode of putting up Blinds, Curtain Poles, Cupboards, &c., &c., and doing any ordinary work for which the jobbing carpenter is generally called in.
3. Household Building Art and Practice. In which the Amateur is made acquainted with simple methods of putting up Buildings in less perishable materials than wood, and with ordinary Smith’s work, Brazing, Soldering, Wire-working, Painting, Glazing, and a variety of other operations that may be performed without difficulty if the Amateur is determined to go to work with a will.
WITH 750 ILLUSTRATIONS
OF TOOLS, PROCESSES, BUILDINGS, &c.
“A most useful book, not only to working men, but to all classes of people.”—The Edinburgh Daily Review.
ENTIRELY NEW EDUCATIONAL WORK.
Just ready, price 5s., folio, boards.
WARD & LOCK’S
PICTORIAL
ATLAS OF NATURE,
CONTAINING
500 ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS
OF THE
Men, Animals and Plants
OF ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE.
FOR HOME AND SCHOOL USE
Edited, with Explanatory Notes, by
H. W. DULCKEN, Ph.D.