Cabinet-Making, Upholstering, Furniture

Hints and Practical Information for Cabinet-makers, Upholsterers, and Furniture-men Generally. - Together with a Description of all kinds of Finishing, with Full Directions Therefor; Varnishes, Polishes, Stains for Wood, Dyes for Wood, Gilding and Silvering, Recipes for the Factory, Lacquers, Metals, Marbles, &c; Pictures, Engravings, etc. - Cloth, gilt.............$1

This book contains an immense amount of the most useful information for those who are engaged in the manufacture, superintendence, or construction of furniture or woodwork of any kind. It is one of the cheapest and best books ever published, and contains over one thousand hints, suggestions, and methods; and descriptions of tools, appliances, and materials. All the recipes, rules, and directions have been carefully revised and corrected by practical men of great experience, so that they will be found thoroughly trustworthy. It contains many of the recipes recently sold at from $5 to $500.

The Workshop Com Panion. - Part I

A Collection of Useful and Reliable Recipes, Rules, Processes, Methods, Wrinkles, and Practical Hints, for the Household and the Shop.....Paper, 35 cents. -

This is a book of 164 closely printed pages, forming a dictionary of practical information for mechanics, amateurs, housekeepers, farmers,- everybody. It is not a mere collection of newspaper clippings, but a series of original treatises on various subjects, such as alloys, cements, inks, steel, signal-lights, polishing materials, and the art of polishing wood, metals. See.; varnishing, gilding. silvering, bronzing, acquering, and the working of brass, ivory, alabaster, iron, steel, glass, etc.

The Workshop Companion-Part II

A Collection of Useful and Reliable Recipes, Rules, Processes, Methods, Wrinkles, and Practical Hints, for the Household and the Shop.....Paper, 35 cents. -

This is an extension of the first part, and contains subjects which have not been discussed in the earlier volume. These two volumes contain an immense amount of practical instruction on matters in regard to which information is constantly desired by amateurs and practical men.

The Practical Assistant, And Workshop Companion

A Treasury of Useful Information relating to the Arts and Sciences of everyday life. - Containing Useful and Reliable Processes, Recipes, Wrinkles, Methods, Rules, Data, Tables; and Hints for the Factory and the Household, the Shop and the Farm. - Edited by John PhiN. - Cloth,.....$1

This is Parts I a-. .' II of "The Workshop Companion," described above, handsomely bound together in cloth, with gilt title.

The Amateurs' Handbook Of Practical Information, For The Workshop And Laboratory

Second Edition

Greatly Enlarged. - Neatly bound. . . 15 cents.

This is a handy little book, containing just the information needed by amateurs In the workshop and laboratory. Directions for making alloys, fusible metals, cements, glues, &c; and for soldering, brazing, lacquering, bronzing, staining and polishing wood, tempering tools, cutting and working glass, varnishing, silvering, gilding, preparing skins, etc. The new edition contains extended directions for preparing polishing powders, freezing mixtures, colored lights for tableaux, solutions for rendering ladies' dresses incombustible, etc. There has also been added a very large number of new and valuable recipes.

The Workshop Companion, Part 1, above described, contains all the matter that is to be found in "The Amateurs' Handbook."