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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 105

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ne Draughtsman : a Book of Mechanical and Constructive Design.” It is in the perspective drawings of the cabinet maker of the objects of the second class, “those which support other parts” — as table or chair legs, pedestals, etc. — that solidity is shown. And for these the absence of a scale, from… … fractions of this — such as half-size, quarter-size, etc. And from such perspective drawings the cabinet maker can work. And it is scarcely necessary to say that the work will not only be facilitated, but will be more accurate, if the parts are shown in clear detail, to which end full-size drawings…

Cabinetwork · Furniture making · Woodwork · Moldings

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