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Art of old Japan : rare specimens of pewter, carvings in jade and other stones and wood, many lanterns from famous palace and temple gounds, fine gold lacquers and other scarce objectsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Mrs. Beeton's household management : a guide to cookery in all branches : daily duties, menu making, mistress & servant, home doctor, hostess & guest, sick nursing, marketing, the nursery, trussing & carving, home lawyerAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Specimens of type, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts, etc. : catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etcAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The description of Ireland, and the state thereof as it is at this present in anno 1598 : now for the first time published from a manuscript preserved in Clongowes-Wood CollegeAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The Dance of death : in a series of engravings on wood from designs attributed to Hans Holbein with a treatise on the subjectAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Handy specimen book; specimens of type, borders and ornaments, brass rule, woodtype etc. Catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etcAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Japanese marks and seals. Part I, Pottery. Part II, Illuminated mss. and printed books. Part III, Lacquer, enamels, metal, wood, ivory, &c.Author: Classic Public Domain
A thousand miles up the Nile, with upwards of seventy illustrations engraved on woodAuthor: G. Pearson, after finished drawings executed on the spot by the author
The registers of Conscliffe, in the county of Durham. Baptisms, 1590-1812. Marriages, 1590-1812. Burials, 1591-1812. TranscribedAuthor: Miss Edleston. Indexed and edited by Herbert M. Wood
Beauty and the beast picture book : containing Beauty and the beast, The frog prince, and The hind in the wood : with eighteen coloured picturesAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Ladies' manual of art : or, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and woodAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of LichfieldAuthor: Classic Public Domain
A manual of Indian timbers; an account of the growth, distribution, and uses of the trees and shrubs of India and Ceylon with descriptions of their wood-structureAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The history of the mastiff, gathered from sculpture, pottery, carving, paintings, and engravings; also from various authors, with remarks on the sameAuthor: Classic Public Domain
A dictionary of Roman and Greek antiquities, with nearly 2000 engravings on wood from ancient originals, illustrative of the industrial arts and social life in the Greeks and RomansAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The manual of heraldry : being a concise description of the several terms used, and containing a dictionary of every designation in the science. IllustratedAuthor: four hundred engravings on wood
Illustrated catalogue of period ornaments cast in composition and wood fibre for woodwork--furniture : manufacturedAuthor: the Decorators Supply Company
Desk Book: Specimens of Type, Borders & Ornaments, Brass Rule & Electrotypes, and Catalogue of Printing Machinery and Materials, Wood Goods, Etc.Author: Classic Public Domain
Rev. Joseph Hull and some of his descendants : including pedigree of the Arnold, Cary, Cornell, Quinby, Winthrop, Underhill, Wood and other familiesAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Designs for Gothic ornaments & furniture, after the ancient manner, for ecclesiastical and domestic purposes, for the use of architects, and workers in metal, stone, wood, etc., etcAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Commemorative biographical record of the upper Wisconsin counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and ShawanoAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The Dance of death : exhibited in elegant engravings on wood with a dissertation on the several representations of that subject but more particularly on those ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein :Author: Classic Public Domain
Mrs. Beeton's cookery book : a household guide all about cookery, household work, marketing, prices, provisions, trussing, serving, carving, menus, etc., etc. With new coloured and other illustrationsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
A dictionary of general knowledge : or, An explanation of words and things connected with all the arts and sciences : illustrated with numerous wood cutsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Farrow's military encyclopedia; a dictionary of military knowledge, illustrated with maps and about three thousand wood engraings;Author: Classic Public Domain
Chemical methods for utilizing wood, including destructive distillation, recovery of trupentine, rosin, and pulp, and the preparation of alcohols and oxalic acidAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Eclipse stoves, catalog number 26 : illustrating cast and steel ranges, cast cook, heating stoves for coal and wood and school heating apparatusAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Farm drainage : the principles, processes, and effects of draining land with stones, wood, plows, and open ditches, and especially with tiles ...Author: Classic Public Domain
Holbein's Dance of death exhibited in elegant engravings on wood, with a dissertation on the several representations of that subjectAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The mechanical properties of wood, including a discussion of the factors affecting the mechanical properties, and methods of timber testingAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Commemorative historical and biographical record of Wood County, Ohio : its past and present : early settlement and development ... biographies and portraits of early settlers and representative citizens, etcAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The sloyd system of wood working, with a brief description of the Eva Rodhe model series and an historical sketch of the growth of the manual training idea;Author: Classic Public Domain
Johnson's household book of nature, containing full and interesting descriptions of the animal kingdom, based upon the writings of the eminent naturalists, Audubon, Wallace, Brehm, Wood and othersAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Lumber, laths, doors, sash, blinds, moulding and interior finish, exterior finish brackets, sawed and turned work and pressed wood ornaments, etc.Author: Classic Public Domain
Jethro Wood, inventor of the modern plow. A brief account of his life, services and trials; together with facts subsequent to his death, and incident to his great inventionAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Training in wood-work, designed for use in manual training and technical school; consisting of three parts: carpentry, wood-turning and pattern workAuthor: Classic Public Domain
A history of Hauppauge, Long Island, N. Y., together with genealogies of the following families: Wheeler, Smith, Bull Smith, Blydenburgh, Wood, Rolph, Hubbs, Price, McCroneAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Discover 125 carefully selected public-domain books about wood carving and chip carving. This focused archive brings together practical manuals, illustrated references and important historical works in one searchable collection.
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Fret-sawing and wood-carving
A manual of fret-cutting and wood-carving
Home decoration: art needle-work and embroidery; painting on silk, satin, and velvet; panel-painting; and wood-carving
Chip carving
Wood carving : being a carefully graduated educational course for schools and adult classes
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A manual of wood carving
A manual of fret-cutting and wood-carving
The art of wood carving : practical hints to amateurs and a short history of the art
A village class for drawing and wood carving : hints to teachers
Fret-sawing and wood-carving
Wood carving : being a carefully graduated educational course for schools and adult classes
Chip carving
Art of old Japan : rare specimens of pewter, carvings in jade and other stones and wood, many lanterns from famous palace and temple gounds, fine gold lacquers and other scarce objects
Home decoration: art needle-work and embroidery; painting on silk, satin, and velvet; panel-painting; and wood-carving
Wood carvings in English churches
A monograph on wood carving in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
Mrs. Beeton's household management : a guide to cookery in all branches : daily duties, menu making, mistress & servant, home doctor, hostess & guest, sick nursing, marketing, the nursery, trussing & carving, home lawyer
The life and times of Anthony Wood, antiquary, of Oxford 1623-1695
Specimens of type, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts, etc. : catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etc
A genealogy of the lineal descendants of William Wood who settled in Concord, Mass., in 1638
The description of Ireland, and the state thereof as it is at this present in anno 1598 : now for the first time published from a manuscript preserved in Clongowes-Wood College
Descendants of the brothers Jeremiah and John Wood
The Dance of death : in a series of engravings on wood from designs attributed to Hans Holbein with a treatise on the subject
Specimens of chromatic wood type, borders, etc. manufactured by Wm. H. Page & Co.
Handy specimen book; specimens of type, borders and ornaments, brass rule, woodtype etc. Catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etc
The registers of Glasbury, Breconshire : 1660-1836 ; Transcribed by Thomas Wood
Handcraft in wood and metal : a handbook of training in their practical working for teachers, students, & craftsmen
Japanese marks and seals. Part I, Pottery. Part II, Illuminated mss. and printed books. Part III, Lacquer, enamels, metal, wood, ivory, &c.
Illustrated catalog of mouldings, architectural & ornamental wood work.
The sacred wood. Essays on poetry and criticism
Illustrated catalogue of period ornaments cast in composition and wood fibre for woodwork-furniture
Gear's illustrated catalogue of wood and iron working machinery
Design and construction in wood
Researches into the history of playing cards; with illustrations of the origin of printing and engraving on wood ..
The imperial dictionary. Supplement ... Illustrated by nearly four hundred figures engraved on wood
The Wood family of Burslem, a brief biography of those of its members who were sculptors, modellers and potters
Exercises in wood-working; with a short treatise on wood; written for manual training classes in schools and colleges
Farm journal rural directory of Wood County, Ohio 1916
Sixty different sorts of ornaments invented by Gaetano Brunetti, Jtalian [sic] painter : very usefull to painters, sculptors, stone-carvers, wood-carvers, silversmiths, &c
Wood-working for amateur craftsmen
A thousand miles up the Nile, with upwards of seventy illustrations engraved on wood by G. Pearson, after finished drawings executed on the spot by the author
The registers of Conscliffe, in the county of Durham. Baptisms, 1590-1812. Marriages, 1590-1812. Burials, 1591-1812. Transcribed by Miss Edleston. Indexed and edited by Herbert M. Wood
Handbook on wood preservation ..
Beauty and the beast picture book : containing Beauty and the beast, The frog prince, and The hind in the wood : with eighteen coloured pictures
The life and times of Anthony Wood, antiquary of Oxford, 1632-1695
Ladies' manual of art : or, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood
Art and education in wood-turning; a textbook and problem book for the use of students
Wood finishing, comprising staining, varnishing, and polishing, with engravings and diagrams;
A course in wood turning
Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield
A manual of Indian timbers; an account of the growth, distribution, and uses of the trees and shrubs of India and Ceylon with descriptions of their wood-structure
Wood Sculpture
William Wood (born 1656) of Earlsferry, Scotland and some of his descendants and their connections
Wood-working tools; how to use them : a manual
The history of the mastiff, gathered from sculpture, pottery, carving, paintings, and engravings; also from various authors, with remarks on the same
Beauty and the beast picture book; containing Beauty and the beast, The frog prince, The hind in the wood
Letters from a citizen of the world to his friends in the East. A new ed., with original notes and illustrative wood-cuts
A dictionary of Roman and Greek antiquities, with nearly 2000 engravings on wood from ancient originals, illustrative of the industrial arts and social life in the Greeks and Romans
Descendants of the twin brothers John and Benjamin Wood
Rules and regulations of the Green-wood cemetery; with a catalogue of proprietors ..
The manual of heraldry : being a concise description of the several terms used, and containing a dictionary of every designation in the science. Illustrated by four hundred engravings on wood
A laboratory course in wood-turning
Wood work complete collection public domain
Illustrated catalogue of period ornaments cast in composition and wood fibre for woodwork--furniture : manufactured by the Decorators Supply Company
Desk Book: Specimens of Type, Borders & Ornaments, Brass Rule & Electrotypes, and Catalogue of Printing Machinery and Materials, Wood Goods, Etc.
Ground-wood pulp
THE DESIGN OF SIMPLE ROOF-TRUSSES IN WOOD AND STEEL
Rev. Joseph Hull and some of his descendants : including pedigree of the Arnold, Cary, Cornell, Quinby, Winthrop, Underhill, Wood and other families
Designs for Gothic ornaments & furniture, after the ancient manner, for ecclesiastical and domestic purposes, for the use of architects, and workers in metal, stone, wood, etc., etc
John Wood; of Attercliffe, Yorkshire, England & Falls, Bucks county, Pennsylvania & his descendants ..
Commemorative biographical record of the upper Wisconsin counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawano
Handwork in wood
The Dance of death : exhibited in elegant engravings on wood with a dissertation on the several representations of that subject but more particularly on those ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein :
...Wood-turning
The Preservation Of Wood
The elements of wood ship construction
Home furniture making, for amateur wood workers, manual training schools and students ..
A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood
Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio; Its Past and Present
First lessons in wood-working
Applied science for wood-workers
Mrs. Beeton's cookery book : a household guide all about cookery, household work, marketing, prices, provisions, trussing, serving, carving, menus, etc., etc. With new coloured and other illustrations
Bench work in wood; a course of study and practice designed for the use of schools and colleges
A handbook on japanning for ironware, tinware, wood, etc., with sections on tinplating and galvanizing
The carpenter's and builder's assistant, and wood worker's guide
Japanese illustrations; a history of the arts of wood-cutting and colour printing in Japan
A dictionary of general knowledge : or, An explanation of words and things connected with all the arts and sciences : illustrated with numerous wood cuts
Farrow's military encyclopedia; a dictionary of military knowledge, illustrated with maps and about three thousand wood engraings;
A practical course with the Spanish language. On Wood-bury's plan with German
Ship-building in iron and wood
Wood, a manual of the natural history and industrial applications of the timbers of commerce
Chemical methods for utilizing wood, including destructive distillation, recovery of trupentine, rosin, and pulp, and the preparation of alcohols and oxalic acid
Examples of a few architectural ornaments, &c. : manufactured in fibrous plaster, carton pierre, and wood, by Geo. Jackson & Sons ...
Eclipse stoves, catalog number 26 : illustrating cast and steel ranges, cast cook, heating stoves for coal and wood and school heating apparatus
Melhuish's No. 21 Catalogue of Wood Workers Tools, Machines and General Contractors' Appliances, Etc.
Final report on the settlement of land revenue in the Delhi District, carried on 1872-77, by Oswald Wood, and completed 1878-80, by R. Maconachie
The book of English trades and library of the useful arts : with eighty-six wood-cuts
History and genealogy of the descendants of Abinah Wood and Susannah Humphreys
Farm drainage : the principles, processes, and effects of draining land with stones, wood, plows, and open ditches, and especially with tiles ...
The expert wood finisher; a complete manual of the art and practice of finishing woods by staining, filling, varnishing, waxing,etc. ..
Wood working, wood turning, patternmaking, green-sand molding, core making, dry-sand and loam work, cupola practice, mixing cast iron
Sweden as producer of wood goods, pulp, paper, tar and other forest-products
The animal kingdom; based upon the writings of the eminent naturalists, Audubon, Wallace, Brehm, Wood and others
Common-place book. Edited by his son-in-law, John Wood Warter
George Cruikshank's omnibus. Illusttrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood.
The natural history of beetles : illustrated by thirty-two plates, numerous wood-cuts, with memoir and portrait of Ray
Wood Workers' Tools : Being a Catalogue of Tools, Supplies, Machinery, and Similar Goods
A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood
Autobiography of Thomas Wilkinson Wallis : sculptor in wood, and extracts from his sixty years' journal ..
Wood and other organic structural materials
Holbein's Dance of death exhibited in elegant engravings on wood, with a dissertation on the several representations of that subject
The mechanical properties of wood, including a discussion of the factors affecting the mechanical properties, and methods of timber testing
Commemorative historical and biographical record of Wood County, Ohio : its past and present : early settlement and development ... biographies and portraits of early settlers and representative citizens, etc
On the arrangement, care, and operation of wood-working factories and machinery; forming a complete operator's handbook
Catalogue Of The Exhibits In The Economic Products Section Except Wood Specimens.
The sloyd system of wood working, with a brief description of the Eva Rodhe model series and an historical sketch of the growth of the manual training idea;
Tubbs wood type
Johnson's household book of nature, containing full and interesting descriptions of the animal kingdom, based upon the writings of the eminent naturalists, Audubon, Wallace, Brehm, Wood and others
Lumber, laths, doors, sash, blinds, moulding and interior finish, exterior finish brackets, sawed and turned work and pressed wood ornaments, etc.
Handicraft in wood and metal : a handbook of training in their practical working for teachers, students, & craftsmen
Jethro Wood, inventor of the modern plow. A brief account of his life, services and trials; together with facts subsequent to his death, and incident to his great invention
Training in wood-work, designed for use in manual training and technical school; consisting of three parts: carpentry, wood-turning and pattern work
A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical
Wood turpentine : its production, refining, properties and uses
A history of Hauppauge, Long Island, N. Y., together with genealogies of the following families: Wheeler, Smith, Bull Smith, Blydenburgh, Wood, Rolph, Hubbs, Price, McCrone
Workshop notes & sketches for handicraft classes, being a first year's course in wood & metal wowrking
The wood-carver's art in ancient Mexico
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