Patterns for Turning: Comprising Elliptical and Other Figures Cut on the Lathe Without the Use of Any Ornamental Chuck

Published by John Murray, London, 1872

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Illustrated throughout, this is the scarce first edition of Howard Warburton Elphinstone's manual on the production of decorative and ornamental patterns with a lathe. A scarce first edition. Illustrated with seventy plates, and with nine tables in a pocket to the rear pastedown. Collated, complete. A practical manual on producing complex geometric patterns on the lathe using standard turning equipment rather than specialised ornamental chucks. An important contribution to the nineteenth-century literature of ornamental turning. Inscription to half title. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Fading to back strip head and rear board head. Mark to centre of front board. Rear hinge strained, with board tender. Front hinge strained and very tenderly held. Inscription to half title. First gathering detached and loosely inserted, otherwise firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good Only.

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Title
Patterns for Turning: Comprising Elliptical and Other Figures Cut on the Lathe Without the Use of Any Ornamental Chuck
Author
H. W. Elphinstone
Publisher
John Murray, London
Publication year
1872
Condition
Good Only
Book Type
book
Binding
Cloth
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Not Stated
Edition
First edition.
Item weight
1 kilogram
Dimensions
9" by 7.5"

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