Modern Practical Joinery George Ellis

Modern Practical Joinery by George Ellis. A treatise on the practice of joiner’s work by hand and machine for the use of apprentices, workmen and builders. Containing a full description of hand tools and their uses, workshop practice, fittings and appliances, the preparation of all kinds of house joinery, bank, office, church, museum, and shop-fittings, air-tight cases, and shaped work. Together with concise treatise on Stair-building, and on hand-railing. Includes about 1,00 clear practical illustrations with some pullouts. Second edition reprinted from the first, dated 1904. Includes 379 pages. Good readable pages within, some ware to cover, overall good condition for its age.

Date: 1904
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Delivery: D (delivery guide)
Price : £80.00

Carpentry and Joinery

Cassell’s Carpentry and Joinery by Paul. N. Hasluck. Comprising notes on materials, processes, principles and practices including 1,803 engravings and twelve coloured plates. This old book covers joints, floors, timber roofs, gantries, staging and shoring, arch centerings, carriage entrance gates, design for a shopfront plus much more. The first contents page has come away and is loose and the spine has come away from the cover, has writing on inside cover. A good book for its age. This old book includes 567 pages.

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Author: Paul. N. Hasluck
Delivery: D (delivery guide)
Price : £68.00

SOLD Joinery and Carpentry 6 volumes

A complete set (6 volumes) of Joinery and Carpentry a practical and authoritative guide dealing with all branches of the craft of woodworking by Richard Greenhalgh. Second edition published by The New Era Publishing Co. These books cover: tools, machines, joints, machine woodworking, doors, panelling, geometry, windows, timber, stairs and handrails, floors, partitions, roofs, house fitments, church fittings, setting out, steel square, drawing and design, veneering, timber framed buildings, calculations, shop fronts, ship joinery, temporary work, mechanics, office fitiings, administration and formwork.

Each book includes around 200-300 pages with many illustrations throughout plus some pullouts. This old book set is in excellent condition and still retains the original box.

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Author: Richard Greenhalgh

The Practical Woodworker 3 volumes

The Practical Woodworker a complete guide to the art and practice of woodworking edited by Bernard E. Jones.  Contents includes: the workshop and its equipment, the plane, rebating making mouldings, edge and angle joints, lap and secret dovetail joints, pigeon cote and rabbit hutches, beehive and fittings, garden carpentry, summerhouses, poultry houses, doors and windows, bevelled work and curved work, revolving bookcases, chairs, clock cases, fancy boxes, oak bedroom suite, bagatelle and billiard tables plus much more. These old woodworking books include a total of 1224 pages with many illustrations throughout. Inside pages are marked with the previous users name. Covers have some ware to edges.

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Author: Bernard E. Jones
Delivery: E (delivery guide)
Price : £32.00

SOLD Furniture Making

Furniture Making designs, working drawings and complete details of 170 pieces of furniture, with practical information on their construction by R. S. Bowers, John Bovingdon with 1,082 illustrations. Published by Cassell, dated 1929. Chapters include: book-stands, racks and troughs, writing cabinets and bureaux, clock cases, hall furniture, two old chests, corner cupboards, small tables plus many other chapters. This old book includes 407 good clean pages.

Date: 1929
Author: R. S. Bowers, John Bovingdo

Woodwork Joints

Woodwork Joints kinds of joints how they are cut and where used by Charles H. Hayward, published by Evans Brothers, dated 1960. Contents includes: Edge joints, mortise and tenon joints, halved and bridle joints, housed and dowelled joints plus more. This old hardback book includes 176 pages with many illustrations throughout and retains dust cover.

Date: 1960
Author: Charles H. Hayward
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £26.00

The Woodworker

The Woodworker volumes 53 dated 1949 and 59 dated 1955. These  2 books have ware to covers and some loose pages, good readable pages within with many illustrations.

Date: 1949 and 1955
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Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £12.00

SOLD The Woodworker 1950

The Woodworker volume 54, dated 1950, published by Evans Brother. Includes 256 pages with many illustrations, rear couple of pages are loose.

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Carpentry For Beginners

Carpentry For Beginners (the woodworker series) Evans Brothers. Includes 215 pages with many illustrations.

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Author: --
Delivery: A (delivery guide)
Price : £12.00

The New Carpenter and Joiner 3 volumes

The New Carpenter and Joiner by R.V. Boughton, dated 1952, 3 volumes. Chapters include: building timbers, the training and works of carpenters and joiners, carcassing, first and second fixings, timber ground floors, timber framed partitions and walls, corbels and pugging…. Volume one includes 269 pages, volume two 269 pages and volume three 268 pages with many illustrations.

Date: 1952
Author: R.V. Boughton
Delivery: E (delivery guide)
Price : £33.00

Practical Cabinet Making and Draughting

Practical Cabinet Making and Draughting by J. H. Rudd, dated 1922. Contents includes: Factory planning, estimating and costing, draughting, mitreing and halving of angles, veneering, the construction of a sideboard, gate leg table…. Includes 172 pages with many illustrations throughout.

Date: 1922
Author: J. H. Rudd
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £15.00

The Arnold Manual of First and Second Fixing Carpentry

The Arnold Manual of First and Second Fixing Carpentry by Les Goring, dated 1998. chapters include: reading construction drawings, tools required, making a carpenters tool box, fixing door frames, linings  and doorsets, fixing wooden and uPVC windows, fixing floor joists and flooring plus many other chapters. This softback book is in good condition with 219 pages with many illustrations throughout.

Date: 1998
Author: Les Goring
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £20.00

Carpentry and Joinery 3 Brian Porter

Carpentry and Joinery 3 by Brian Porter, department of building trades, Leeds college of Building. Chapters include: prefabricated timber buildings, external cladding, doors, frames, linings and finishing’s, stairs, shoring buildings plus other chapters.
This fine paper back book includes 288 pages with many illustrations throughout.

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Author: Brian Porter
Delivery: A (delivery guide)
Price : £16.50

Practical Home Woodworking

Practical Home Woodworking illustrated everything the amateur woodworker should know about his craft with detailed working instructions and drawings. Published by Odhams Press ltd, dated 1952.
This hardback book includes 384 pages with many illustrations throughout.

Date: 1952
Author: --
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £9.00

Modern Power Woodwork

Modern Power Woodwork by Charles H. Hayward, published by English Universities Press Ltd, dated 1962. Chapters include: Machines and equipment, the workshop, circular saw, bandsaw, jigsaw and fretsaw, planers, sanders, mortisers, portable router, turning, machine dovetailing, machine speeds, cabinet construction, door making, veneering, garden table, bedroom furniture plus many other chapters.
This hardback book is in good condition, retains its dust cover and includes 428 pages with illustrations throughout.

Date: 1962
Author: Charles H. Hayward
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £10.00

The Woodworker Volume LV 1951

The Woodworker, Volume LV, dated 1951 published by Evans Brothers. Includes a number of different projects including making a dovetailed Tool Chest. Includes 244 pages.

Date: 1951
Author: --
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £10.00

Handymans How to do it

Handyman’s How to do it in pictures, a visual course of instructions prepared for amateurs by craftsman, published by Odhams press limited. Chapters include: choice and care of tools, the workplace, the handyman’s materials, woodwork repairs and improvements, metal work repairs…
This hardback book includes 320 pages with many black and white photographs throughout, retains its dust cover.

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Author: --
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £9.00

Commercial Timbers of the World

Commercial Timbers of the World, a concise encyclopaedia of World timbers by F.H. Titmuss and C.H. Richards, published by The Technical Press ltd, London, dated 1971.
Hardback book, includes 351 good clean pages with photographs of woods throughout.

Date: 1971
Author: F.H. Titmuss and C.H. Richards
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £25.00

Newnes Home Mechanic

A collection of 9 magazines title Newnes home Mechanic, includes part 1, 4-7, 9-12. The cover is coming away from the spine on a few of the magazines.

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Author: --
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £25.00

Handbook of Hardwoods

Handbook of Hardwoods revised by R.H. Farmer, dated 1972. Chapters include: The weights of timbers, Strength properties, shrinkage and movement, working properties, wood bending properties, veneer and plywood, defects caused by wood-boring insects, resistance to marine borers, natural durability, amenability to preservative treatment and uses.
Good clean hardback book that includes 243 pages.

Date: 1972
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Author: R.H. Farmer
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £15.00

Colour Woodcuts

Colour Woodcuts a book of reproductions and a handbook of method by John Platt, published by Pitman, dated 1948. Ex library book, includes 53 pages.

Date: 1948
Author: John Platt
Delivery: A (delivery guide)
Price : £10.50

Whittling and Woodcarving

Whittling and Woodcarving by E.J. Tangerman, published by Dover Publications, Inc, dated 1936. Chapters include: Woods, Knives, Simple to Whittle, Rustic field and camp, Silhouettes – flat toys and windmills, Puzzles – simple and difficult, Chains – plain and fancy, Ball-in-a-cage – Nested Spheres, Fans – plain and shaped, Joints – hinge and pivot, Models – ships, planes and camps, In bottles – ships, fans, etc. plus many other chapters.
This softback book includes 293 pages with many illustrations.

Date: 1936
Author: E.J. Tangerman
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £11.00

Tool Making Projects for Joinery and Woodworking

Tool-Making Projects for Joinery and Woodworking – A Yankee Craftsman’s Practical Methods by Steve A. Olesin, dated 2005.
Softback book, includes 184 pages with many illustrations throughout.

Date: 2005
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Author: Steve A. Olesin
Delivery: B (delivery guide)
Price : £12.00