Book/Printed Material The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated by engravings and woodcuts
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Image 1 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … 3 1 i- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 2 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated …- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 3 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated …- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 4 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated …- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 5 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated …- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 6 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated …- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 7 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated …- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 8 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated …- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 9 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated …- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 10 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … GLASGOW Printed for Richard Griffin and CÂ 2 Ba 0 a ch 1 A 3 TS 413 Sr IEEE And Thomas Tege Son London 183 66- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 11 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated …- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 12 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … THE BOOK OF TRADES Circle of the Wseful Arts ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS AND WOODCUTS GLASGOW PRINTED FOR RICHARD GRIFFIN CO THOMAS TEGG SON LONDON TEGG WISE TEGG DUBLIN AND J S A…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 13 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … ol GLASGOW PRINTED BY GEORGE BROOKMAN- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 14 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … PREFACE TuE design of the following little work is to present an account of those arts by which the various wants of civilised society are supplied and of those manufactures upon which…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 15 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … iv PREFACE Many of the descriptions of trades are the result of personal observation others are carefully compiled from the best and most recent writers on the subjects referred to Among these…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 16 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … PREFACE v that they are presented as ornamental attractions calculated at the same time to improve and gratify a taste for the arts In a country whose prosperity depends so much upon…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 17 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated …- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 18 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Page 1 ARTS RELATIVE TO THE SUPPLY OF FOOD Page 5 Page Agriculture 5 Cultivation of Hops e822 The Grain Farmer 6 Distilling  33 Ploughing 9 Rectification 4 pr…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 19 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … viii CONTENTS ARTS RELATIVE TO CLOTHING Page Wool à 83 Blasi 3 84 Cotton â 85 Sills 286 The Wool Spinner A 90 SilkThrower 93 CottonSpinner 96 Linen Spinner 5 1 100…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 20 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … CONTENTS ARTS RELATIVE TO THE MINERAL KINGDOM Page Mining 212 Coining Minerals used as Combustibles 215 Silversmith Collieries A 215 Plating Gas Works 225 Watches and Clocks Candlemaking 227 Watchmaker Lamps 230…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 21 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … x CONTENTS Page Engraving on Wood 324 Stereotypefounding Lithography 324 Varieties of Type Papermaking 325 Bookbinding TypeFoundry 5 334 The Bookseller Printing â 337 The BillSticker- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 22 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … The Plough The Harrow Reaping Hook Windmill The Still The Hoe The Spade The Rake The Scythe Hayfork Haymakers The Churn Grazing Boring for water Suction Pump Forcing Pump Water Carrier Fountain…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 23 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … xii INDEX TO THE ENGRAVINGS Bandana pattern Calico Printing apparatus Calico Printing apparatus The Farrier âWheelwright âWagon Cart âWheelbarrow Paviour Railway Wagon Hetton Railway âWooden Bridge Boat Yacht Steam Ship Rope Spinner…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 24 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … THE CIRCLE OF THE USEFUL ARTS INTRODUCTION It has sometimes been remarked with surprise that a native of a barbarous country when shown all the wonders of a European city such as…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 25 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … 2 INTRODUCTION the beauty of the scenery and are eventually so necessary for clothing and for food And how many walk listlessly about the streets of our busy cities and see the…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 26 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … INTRODUCTION 3 which all kinds of workmanship are done and into the operations of the different manufactories To furnish you with an outline of the knowledge I am thus recommending is the…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 27 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … 4 INTRODUCTION of workmanship not previously treated of The mode of making these articles will come to be explained in due turn I must beg my young friends to keep this in…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 28 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … ARTS RELATIVE TO THE SUPPLY OF FOOD AGRICULTURE THE earth chiefly has been destined to afford supplies of food to man This it does to some extent of its own accord that…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 29 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … 6 THE GRAIN FARMER produced by the land another way is to increase the number of animals fit for food and a third way is to manage certain animals in such a…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 30 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … THE GRAIN FARMER 7 wet and heavy earth called peat or peat moss Ina third place you will observe the ground to consist of a moist and tough earth called clay Now…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 31 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … 8 THE GRAINFARMER one kind of eulture and others for a different kind while a third class can hardly be made to produce crops by any means Some of those unfit for…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 32 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … THE GRAIN FARMER pe 9 cleared this occupation hardly comes under the head of farming We shall therefore pass it by The first thing the farmer has to do is to turn…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 33 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … oh PR Ba i Ji il il Bi i bi il uit 10 THE GRAIN FARMER is now down Then we have the handles of the plough by which the ploughman guides…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 34 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … iron spikes of six to ten inches in THE GRAIN FARMER 11 in the presence of judges and to those who complete their task in the shortest time and plough best prizes…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 35 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … THE GRAIN FARMER ROLLING In order to break down heavy clods to render the field more level and even to improve certain kinds of crops in an early stage rollers are used…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 36 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … THE GRAIN FARMER 13 completely ripe in August or September and these may be con sidered the two principal months of harvest The operation of cutting down the corn is called reaping…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 37 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … i4 THE GRAIN FARMER to answer the purpose as to come into general use The one which was most successful might be briefly described as consist ing of a circular scythe which…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 38 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … THE MILLER 15 THRASHING MACHINE Tue mode above described of thrashing is very laborious and slow and a machine has been invented which does the work both better and more quickly This…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 39 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … 16 THE MILLER the arts of life very clumsy contrivances have been used to reduce corn to a powder the first step in rendering it fit for food Bruising it with the…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
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Image 40 of The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated … THE MILLER 17 you that stones are of very various degrees of hardness The millstones are two in number flat and circular the one fixed above the other at a distance which…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1835
About this Item
Title
- The Book of trades : or, Circle of the useful arts : illustrated by engravings and woodcuts
Names
- Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Glasgow : Printed for Richard Griffin and Co., 1835.
Headings
- - Occupations
Notes
- - Added engraved t.p., illustrated.
- - Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975.
- - Book-plate of Howard C. Levis.
- - LAC nsk 2019-07-23 update (1 card)
Medium
- xii, 356 p. : [19] leaves of plates ; 15 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- HF5382 .B64 1835
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 81186173
Online Format
- online text
- image