The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's companion : comprising the art of drawing, as applicable to cabinet work; veneering, inlaying, and buhl work ... with numerous receipts useful to workman generally
A trade manual for cabinetmakers and upholsterers by J. Stokes, issued by H.C. Baird in Philadelphia in 1880, teaching workshop drawing alongside veneering, inlaying and buhl work with practical receipts. The plates are plain outline engravings of drawing exercises: anthemion leaves, petalled rosettes in circles, lidded urns, spiral scroll runs numbered as lessons, tapered vase and capital profiles, and a gridded Greek key border, all usable as clean line ornament and construction diagrams.
