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AndyT wrote:Woah, serious library envy is developing down here! Very nice find, in a luxury library binding. Please leave a few for me!
AndyT wrote:As for those clever cams for holding work, Roy Underhill did a great video about them - start at about seven minutes in.
AndyT wrote:even if I never have needed to build a viaduct...
toolsntat wrote:So, who's bringing what to this week's Benchtalk101 party ?
Cheers Andy
AndyT wrote:Dan and I could easily fill several hours just from this thread!
I'll see if I can get a word in tomorrow.
AndyT wrote:Agreed. Reading a few of these books, I often found myself skipping over the chapters on geometry. Some time later, the penny dropped - to do the really demanding work, like that arched headed window which is also circular on plan in plate LXXX, you aren't going to get anywhere if you can't produce the drawings yourself. Producing drawings depends on understanding the geometry.
AndyT wrote:Well, that looks much nicer than it did in its eBay listing!
Phil Pascoe wrote:At school at 14 or 15 we were only allowed to make things we could draw properly. That always seemed a sensible restriction to me - if you didn't understand how to draw something properly, you wouldn't understand how to make it properly.
AndyT wrote:This arrived today:
I think at least one contributor to this thread will recognise it and take the blame for making me buy it...
AndyT wrote:The title that the bookbinder has put on the spine may be different from your copy, Dan, but the title page confirms that it's the same book:
I'm pretty sure that back at the time this was published, it was normal for books to be sold unbound. The purchaser would then have them bound, in a style that matched the rest of the books in their library.
That's ok, it's a decent leather binding in good enough condition and I paid about the same as you did.
AndyT wrote:There's just one problem. The organisation of the book is a bit muddly. There's an attempt at a structure but there are two series of full page plates - the Lines and the Practical Examples. These have their own numbering but no page numbers and whoever bound this copy got confused. It's missing plates 72, 75 and 77. I'm sure this was at the binding stage; there's no evidence of removal afterwards.
You've already helpfully provided pictures of 75 and 77 which I shall print out and insert. Could I ask you to point your camera at plate 72 and upload it?
I'd hate to think there might be some bit of abstruse information that I might really really need some time soon!
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