Plaster: How To Make And How To Use

Being a Complete Guide for the Plasterer in the Preparation and Application of all kinds of Plaster, Stucco, Portland Cement, Hydraulic Cements, Lime of Tiel, Rosendale and other Cements. With Useful and Practical Information on the Chemistry, Qualities, and Uses of the Various Kinds of Limes and Cements. - Together with Rules for Measuring, Computing, and Valuing Plaster and stucco Work. - To which is appended an Illustrated Glossary of Terms used in Plastering, &c- By Fred. T. Hodgson, author of "The Builders' Guide, and Estimators' Price-Book," "Practical Carpentry," etc . -Cloth, gilt.............$1

This work is illustrated with numerous engravings in the text, and three plates, giving some forty figures of ceilings, center-pieces, cornices, panels, and soffits. It is an invaluable book for plasterers, bricklayers, masons, builders, architects, and engineers.

Handsaws: Their Use, Care, And Abuse. How To Select And How To File Them

Being a Complete Guide for Selecting, Using, and Filing all kinds of Handsaws, Backsaws, Compass and Keyhole Saws; Web, Hack, and Butchers' Saws; Showing the Shapes, Forms, Angles, Pitches, and Sizes of Sawteeth suitable for till kinds of Saws, and for all kinds of Wood, Lone, Ivory, and Metal. - Together with Hints and Suggestions on the Choice of Files. Saw-sets. Filing-clamps, and other matters pertaining to the Care and Management of till classes of Hand and other Small Saws. - By FRED. T. HODG80N, author of "The Stcd Square and Its Uses," "The Slide-Bule, and How to Use It," "The Builders' Guide," "Practical Carpentry," etc .- Illustrated by over Seventy-five Engravings. - Cloth, gilt......$1

This Work is intended more particularly for Operative carpenters, joiners cab-inetwukers carriage builders,nnd wood workers generally,amateurs or professional!.

The Practical Upholsterer

Giving Clear Directions for Skillfully Performing all kinds of Upholsterers' Work in Leather, Silk, Plush, Reps, Cottons, Velvets, and Carpetings. - Also, for Stuffing, Embossing, Welting, and Covering all kinds of Mattresses, etc. - Rules for Measuring Valances, Curtains, Tapestry, Window and Door Drapery, Curtain Rods, Persian Beds, Mantel Drapery, Lambrequins, Cushions, Floor-Cloths, Festoon Blinds and Curtain-Hangings, and all kinds of Upholstery. - Fully Illustrated with Engravings of Tools, Sketches of Furniture, and numerous full-page Illustrations of Original Decorative Designs. - By A Practical Upholsterer. 12mo, cloth...................$1

This work contains a number of original designs in drapery and upholstery, with full explanatory text, and an immense number of working illustrations. It gives a description of tools, appliances, and materials. It tells how to upholster ehairs, parlor furniture, bedroom furniture, etc. It contains rules for cutting bed-hangings, window-curtains, door-hangings, blinds, and for measuring and cutting carpets. It gives arithmetical calculations for cutting carpets, curtains. etc, mantle-board drapery, festoons, and, in short, everything pertaining to upholstery.

There is nothing published in this country that is so thorough and complete in the instructions given for upholstering, as this book. It is invaluable alike to the practical workman and the amateur.