The Cabinet-Maker's Guide to the Entire Construction of Cabinet-Work - Including Nemeering, Marqu

Written to supply a want is a phrase now become so hackneyed, that it is only repeated here because no other words mold so well express the purpose of the writer, which is, to place before the trade a book of instruction on Cabinet-making by a London Cabinet-maker. From the fact of the London trade, being divided and sub-divided into so many branches, wardrobe makers, pianoforte-case makers, photographic apparatus makers, dining-table makers, telegraphic-case makers, sideboard makers, glass-showcase makers, chiffonier makers, looking-glass-frame-makers, mathematical-case makers, dressing-case makers, toilet-table makers, chest-of-drawers makers, etc., and each, one of these, branches taking apprentices, it follows as a natural consequence that there are many, workmen, who are thoroughly, efficient only in the branch in which they have been specially, trained. It mill frequently happen, from slackness in a particular branch of trade, or from a other causea, that a workman is compelled to turn his hand to another branch, and he then finds that he must place himself under an obligation to others for instruction. By all such workmen this, little book will be found of value, as well as by apprentices and country workmen unaccustomed to many, of the branches of the trade treated of in these pages amateurs, also, who take delight in the art will, find the book of great service and lastly, it is hoped it may, prove useful as a work of reference to the trade in general. The information given is, based on an experience of twenty-five years as a general Cabinet-maker, and can be, relied upon.