Two Books Title Old Furniture

Two old books titled Old Furniture, One volume has 423 pages the other 548 pages with black & white prints and colour prints. Books dated articles 1929 and 1930. Books are collections such as “Dr Linley Scott’s Collection of Furniture” “Furniture at Hatfield House”, Windsor and Wycombe chairs” “Benches and Wall Seats”…… Also within the collections are artwork, porcelain, glass, ceramics and some silver. Both books contain a great deal of information.

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Delivery: E (delivery guide)
Price : £40.00

Three Old Furniture Books

Three books on old furniture, the smallest  is titled Oak furniture from Gloucestershire and Somerset (32 pages). The second book is titled British furniture makers by John Gloag (48 page hardback book). The largest book is titled An Introduction to Old English Furniture by W-E-Mallett. Cover’s in a poor condition (144 pages one of which has a tear to it). All three old furniture books have a number of photos/ drawings through out.

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Delivery: D (delivery guide)
Price : £18.00

Wallace Collection Catalogues – Furniture

Wallace Collection Catalogues – Furniture dated 1956. Chapters include: French: Gothic and renaissance furniture, Louis XIV furniture, Louis XV furniture, Louis XVI furniture, later eighteenth century Boulle furniture, nineteenth century furniture,  copies of French furniture plus other chapters. Includes 480 pages.

Date: 1956
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Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £9.00

SOLD Carpentry and Joinery (Newnes)

Carpentry and Joinery Volumes 1,2 & 3, edited by Alfred E. Bridgwood and published by George Newnes Limited. Chapters include: (volume one): Hand tools and accessories, hand power tools, timber, joints and processes, fastening and fixing devices. (volume two): Workshop setting out, applied geometry, the steel square, door frames and finishings, windows, linings and finishings, sunblinds, windows blinds and roller shutters, locks, hinges and furniture, floors, roofs, site fixing. (volume three): Shoring and timbering, centering and formwork, veneering, panelling, stairs, handrailing, work of double curvature, shop fronts and fittings, church work and fitments, calculations, building acts and bye-laws. All three hardback books include diagrams through out. Volume one includes 311 pages, volume two 380 pages, volume three 380 pages. A good collection of Carpentry and joinery books.

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Author: Carpentry and Joinery (Newnes)

Light Woodwork

Light Woodwork An introduction to manual instruction by Herbert Moorhouse, published by Oxford University Press dated 1911. Chapters include: Development by and in a course of woodwork, equipment for light woodwork scheme, light woodwork 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year scheme. Subjects correlated with manual instructions. This old hard back book includes 139 pages many with diagrams.

Date: 1911
Author: Herbert Moorhouse
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £11.00

The Handyman in the Home (3 Volumes)

The Handyman in the Home 3 volume book set edited by Arthur W. Judge and published by Caxton publishing, dated 1956. Chapters include:
How to tile a roof, making a partition, home made parquet flooring, ornamental bird bath, concrete work, laying crazy paving, erecting a wire fence, Barbola work, cane seating, leather modelling, passé-partout picture frame, picture restoring, pouffes, making seagrass stool and chair, upholstery repairs, clock maintenance and repairs, French polishing, repairing a Bentwood chair plus many other chapters.
Volume one includes 329 pages, volume two 342, volume three 323. All three books have good clean pages within and include a number of diagrams and black and white photographs.

Date: 1956
Author: Arthur W. Judge
Delivery: E (delivery guide)
Price : £25.00

Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design

Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, introduction by Edward Jay, The Antique Collectors club, dated 1977. Main chapters include: Key dates in 19th Century British Furniture History, Contemporary sources quoted in the dictionary, the designers and design books, contents to pictorial dictionary, pictorial dictionary. This old hardback book  maintains the original dust cover and includes 583 pages with drawings of antique furniture.

Date: 1977
Author: Edward Jay, The Antique Collectors club
Delivery: E (delivery guide)
Price : £35.00

The Woodworkers Handbook

The Woodworkers Handbook by Roger Horwood, dated 1999. Chapters include: woods for the woodworker, tools for the job, joining wood and turning, finishes and finishing, step – by – step projects, repairs and restoration, your own designs and table leg template. This hardback book includes 160 pages with coloured photographs throughout.

Date: 1999
Author: Roger Horwood
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £14.00

Woodturning and Woodcarving Books

Collection of soft-back books includes:
(Book One) – Turning Wooden Toys by Terry Lawrence, dated 1994, published by Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd. Chapters include: ninepins, colour-mix tops, game sphere, castle quint. This book includes 172 pages with diagrams and photographs throughout.

(Book Two) – Useful woodturning projects, dated 1996, published by Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd, chapters include: turning trays, bookends for beginners, making a three tiered tripod table, knobs and handles, singing bowls, Beatrix Potter table and stools, pepper mills plus many other chapters. This soft-back book includes 121 pages with photographs throughout.

(Book Three) – Power Tool Woodcarving by Alan Gill Bridgewater, dated 1994, chapters include: Carving and painting a fond container, carving a sunflower, carving a shortbread mould with a thistle motif, carving an Icelandic knot roundel, carving a gilt ribbon in French tradition plus many other chapters on power carving. This soft-back book includes 160 pages with many drawings and black and white photographs.

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Author: mixed
Delivery: D (delivery guide)
Price : £16.00

Two Furniture Books

Two furniture books, the first books titled The Complete book of Furniture Restoration by Tristan Salazar, dated 1998, chapters include: Aquiring furniture, tools and equipment, wood in restoration, the art of restoration, chairs and stools, restoring tables, woodworm, bamboo and bentwood plus a few other chapters on furniture restoration. This hardback book includes 160 pages with many coloured and black and white photographs.

The second books titled Wood Small Furniture You Can Make, dated 1991, chapters include: Shelves, stands and frames, collectors showcase, Pint sized picture frame, occasional tables, waterfall end table, kid-sized picnic table, walnut jewellery case, fishing rod rack plus a few other chapters, this hardback book includes 96 pages with detailed drawings, measurements and coloured photographs of each project.

Date: 1998 & 1991
Author: Mixed
Delivery: D (delivery guide)
Price : £10.00

Toolroom Practice (Volumes 1 - 2)

Toolroom Practice Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Arthur W.Judge and published by The Caxton publishing company Limited, dated 1953. Main chapters include: Drawing office practice, toolroom materials, heat-treatment methods and equipment, toolroom equipment and hand operations, small machine tools and operations, tool-setting operations, toolroom inspection methods, small jigs and fixtures, gauges and gauge making, tool grinding also includes many sub chapters within these main chapters. Volume one includes 244 pages, volume two includes 278 pages. Both hardback books feature many diagrams and black and whitephotographs.

Date: 1953
Author: Arthur W.Judge
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £52.00

The Complete Guide to Wood Finishes and Effects

The Complete Guide to Wood Finishes and Effects from basic stains to elaborate special effects step by step instructions on how to achieve a perfect finish on every type of wood by Derrick Crump. This hardback book includes 176 pages with tips and coloured photographs throughout.

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Author: Derrick Crump
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £9.00

Solid-Wood Cabinet Construction

Solid-Wood Cabinet Construction 70 contemporary designs with details by Franz Karg, dated 1991. Rear of book reads “Rich natural variations in colour, texture and line make solid wood the ideal material for strong and beautiful furniture. In this book, master cabinetmaker Franz Karg illustrates how you can combine traditional construction methods and modern design to build lasting furniture for your living room, dining room and bedroom.”

“The book is organized by construction method: board, frame-and-panel, and post construction. Karg provides sharp photographs with superbly detailed line drawings of the important construction details, and all the technical information you need to build wall cabinets, desks, sideboards and other beautiful pieces of furniture. It’s information that can’t be found anywhere else”. This hard back woodworking book in excellent condition and includes 143 pages.

Date: 1991
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Author: Franz Karg
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £18.00

SOLD Making Wood Signs

Making Wood Signs by Patrick Spielman, dated 1981, chapters include: Woods for sign making, - Designing wood signs, - Basic tools and machines, - Cutout letters, - Hand carved signs, - Routed signs, - Sign routing and carving machines, - making large signs, -making a huge sign, - Finishing signs. Book includes 144 pages with black and white photographs through out, slight ink stain to bottom edge of book.

Date: 1981
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Author: Patrick Spielman

Collection of Woodworking Books

A collection of woodworking books includes: (Book One) Woodworking School by Peter Collenette, chapters include: timber, using hand tools, gluing and fixing, the core of tools… 208 pages, dated 1989.

(Book Two) Basic Woodworking by Alf Martensson. Chapters include: hardwoods and softwoods, basic tool kit, marking and measuring, saws, chisels, planes, shaping and finishing tools, preparing timber, basic joints, finishing’s…. 96 pages, dated 1978.

(Book Three) Working with Wood by Time Life Books, chapters include: The carpenters art, making a multitude of holes, the knack of shaping wood, making perfect joints…. Includes 127 pages, dated 1984.

(Book Four) Setting up your own woodworking shop by Bill Stankus, chapters include: Designing a space, storage, the workbench, power tools, dust collection, hand tool….. includes 224 pages, dated 1979.

(Book Five) The complete book of tools and how to use them by Albert Jackson and David Day. Chapters include: Rules plumb and level, dividers and callipers, sharpening tools, saws, chisels and gouge, planes, routers, spokeshaves, scrapers, modelling tools, plumbing tools, welding tools, building tools, adze, hooks and scythe…. Includes 352 pages dated 1986.

(Book Six) Guide to care and repair of Furniture by Desmond Gaston, chapters include: Woodworking tools, looking after your tools, structural repairs, repairs to surfaces, restoring surfaces, upholstering: tools and basic materials, upholstering: ripping off…. Includes 96 pages, dated 1993.

(Book Seven) Get into Carpentry with Ray Day. Chapters include: natural timber, man made boards, planes and chisels, squares and measures, making joints, wood finishes, laminated plastic… includes 93 pages, dated 1983.

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Author: Mixed
Delivery: E (delivery guide)
Price : £26.00

Make Your Own Furniture

Make Your Own Furniture produced by Ron Bloomfield, published by The British Broadcasting (BBC) dated 1979. Chapters include: Wall storage system, occasional tables, beds and bunks, bedroom storage range, dining tables and chairs, upholstered wooden seating, wall mounted cabinets, timber tools and techniques, tools section plus many other chapters. Includes 176 pages with many diagrams, colour photographs and full instructions on how to make each project.

Date: 1979
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Author: Ron Bloomfield
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £12.00

Guide to English Furniture

The Arthur Negus Guide to English Furniture. This book is lavishly illustrated with over a hundred photographs of Old and Antique English furniture, with topics covering understanding of furniture, the woods used, construction methods, how to check quality and condition……… Written by Arthur Negus third impression in 1980, includes 175 pages and original dust cover.

Date: 1980
Book size: 243mm high by 176mm wide
Author: Arthur Negus
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £11.50

Woodworking Crafts Annual

Woodworking Crafts Annual special woodturning supplement. A few sample chapters include: woodworking crafts in Africa, - A very amateurish start to woodcarving, - The sharpening and setting up of a smoothing plane, - Woodturning and rose painting in Norway, - How I became established in antique restoration, - Old oak reproductions…….Published by Guilds of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd in 1985, this woodworking book includes 160 pages with many diagrams and drawings.

Date:1985
Book size: 297mm high by 210mm wide
Author: Published by Guilds of Master Craftsman
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £10.00

Old English Furniture Books

Two old English furniture books, the largest is by Bernard Price and titled The Story of English Furniture, a few chapters include: Jaco Bean and Restoration, Queen Anne and Early Georgian Furniture, Thomas Chippendale, Robert Adam and Neo-Classicism, Eighteenth Century Makers and Designers plus many other chapters. Also includes 192 pages many with photographs and drawings, maintains original dust cover. The smaller book is titled Old English Furniture A Simple Guide by Hamden Garden  and includes 160 pages, maintains its original dust cover.

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Author: Bernard Price, Hamden Garden
Delivery: C (delivery guide)
Price : £15 .00