Handy notes and queries. A manual of useful information, of especial importance to dealers in hardware, stoves and tinware, machinists', gas-fitters' and plumbers' materials, as well as the various workers in useful metals ..
A trade reference compiled by Henry Hopkins and published in New York in 1888 for hardware dealers, tinsmiths, machinists, plumbers and gas-fitters. Wood-engraved catalogue cuts show hand-cranked machines, shears and presses, circular saw blades, and butt hinges, rendered in dense hatching on bare grounds — usable as isolated object silhouettes and engraved texture.
