The cabinet maker : a practical guide to the principles of design, and the economical and sound construction of household furniture, furnishings, and fittings : together with treatises on the designing and setting out of mouldings, and of ornamental or cut-wood work (1892)
London : Ward, Lock, Bowden · leaf 100
hat is, for the direct object of getting larger profits — it is difficult to find language strong enough to designate the man who practises it. Scamped work, with which, unfortunately, the public are but too familiar, is remarkably well and most appropriately named ; for, assuredly, one who… … disgraces and degrades all who are concerned in it, master and man alike. And assuredly — though they may not think about it — it is not the least painful part of the relationship existing between a dishonest master and his men, that the master will be, and is, responsible for willingly and…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making · Woodwork · Moldings
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