Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Exercises in Wood-Working: With a Short Treatise on Wood
This book deals with carpentry and joinery, and is divided into two parts: The First Part treats of the structure, properties, and kinds of wood; its manufactures and economic relations to other substances, parasitic plants and insects; and means of preserving wood.
The Second Part contains the exercises, preceded by a description of tools, and the manner of drawing used to illus; trate the exercises.
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