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The practice of hand-turning in wood, ivory, shell, etc. : with instructions for turning such works in metal as may be required in the practice of turning in wood, ivory, etc. : also, an appendix on ornamental turning : a book for beginners (1868)

Campin, Francis · London : E. & F.N. Spon · leaf 297

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The sketches, fig. 94, represent designs composed of four and eight ellipses, the major axes of all the systems dividing the work into eight equal segments. Each system of ellipses is of the from represented at a or at i. We will suppose that it is intended to ornament a small circular box with…

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