A Concise Treatise on Eccentric Turning: To Which are Added Practical Observations on the Uses of the Eccentric Cutting Frame, the Drilling Frame, and the Universal Cutting Frame. Illustrated by figures and Eccentric Patterns: with Full Instructions as to the Modes by which Such Patterns May Be Effected.

  • [Engleheart, Nathaniel Brown]
  • London: Pelham Richardson 1852

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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.

Notes

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.

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