The Hand Book of Turning: Containing Instructions in Concentric, Elliptic, and Eccentric Turning; also various Plates of Chucks, Tools, & Instruments; and Directions for Using the Eccentric Cutter, Drill, Vertical Cutter, and Circular Rest; with Patterns, and Instructions for Working Them.

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8vo, pp. xxx, 143, [1] + frontispiece, engraved title-page and 14 plates (four of them folding), all printed in sanguine. Original green cloth, spine blocked in gilt, front board blocked in gilt and blind, rear board blocked in blind, marbled edges and endpapers. Some foxing and light soiling. Extremities rubbed, binding strained at centre. Modern bookplate to front pastedown, gift inscription to title-page: ‘Walter Lewis Seaton from Aunt(?) Robert Cooper’.