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The Cabinet-Maker's Guide: or Rules and Instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoise-shell, and metal. With observations on their management and application

The Cabinet-Maker's Guide: or Rules and Instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoise-shell, and metal. With observations on their management and application

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The Cabinet-Maker's Guide: or Rules and Instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoise-shell, and metal. With observations on their management and application

by Siddons, G.A

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Publisher's lettered boards, with ad on lower board. Nicely rebacked and re-cornered with sheep at an early date. Pen starts and
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Greenfield, Mass: Ansel Phelps, 1825. First American edition, reprinted from a London edition. 108pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's lettered boards, with ad on lower board. Nicely rebacked and re-cornered with sheep at an early date. Pen starts and old notes on flyleaves, ownership signature of Ezra Coldham. First American edition, reprinted from a London edition. 108pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first furniture finisher's manual published in America, with recipes and lists of requisite tools and implements. Robert D. Mussey, in his introduction to the 1987 reprint of the 1827 American edition, points out that this work contains the first mention of glass-paper (sandpaper).

Uncommon and interesting. Not in American Imprints. Rink 1793

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Title
The Cabinet-Maker's Guide: or Rules and Instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoise-shell, and metal. With observations on their management and application
Author
Siddons, G.A
Format/Binding
108pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Book Condition
Used - Publisher's lettered boards, with ad on lower board. Nicely rebacked and re-cornered with sheep at an early date. Pen starts and
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Edition
First American edition, reprinted from a London edition
Publisher
Ansel Phelps
Place of Publication
Greenfield, Mass
Date Published
1825
Keywords
Furniture | Decorative Arts | Massachusetts
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Americana; Art, Architecture & Design;

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