The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 440
our inches shorter thanthe ladder itself. It will now only remain to attach ropes to prevent the step-ladder spreading too widely open; to do this, holes must bebored in the sides and in the back-stay, as shown in thesketch, and a piece of rope about two feet long must bepassed through the holes on… … AVING by this time masteredthe somewhat difficult processof making a negative picture,and having duly overcomethe various vexatious failureswhich must of necessity beencountered in so delicate aprocess, it will be with greatrelief that we turn to onewhich is not only of a moresimple and easy…
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