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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 94

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well as to construct, that he should possess the ability to give accurate representations — drawings — of what he has designed. It is not the province of this work to give instruction to the young cabinet maker as to how he is to become an accomplished draughtsman. These he will find in detail in… … the art of drawing, one thing is certain, that his mere study of its details will be of little practical service to him unless he gives also a large amount of practice. And to both study and practice he must “ give patient thought,” which is but another rendering of the somewhat celebrated reply of…

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