Author: RICH (Charles H.)
Title: Specimens of the Art of Ornamental Turning, in Eccentric and Concentric Patterns; Intended Chiefly for the use of Beginners.
Description: Printed and Sold by E. Skelton & Co., Southampton. 1819. First Edition, 4to, [ii],v,[vi]-33,[1]pp., with half-title, without final errata leaf, 6 leaves of plates (of which 4 are folding), orig. boards with bookseller's label for C.P. Archer of Dublin mounted on upper cover, spine worn a defective, unopened, uncut. First edition of this scarce work on ornamental turning. "All the pieces described have been worked by a Lathe of the most common and least expensive description, with the addition only of the 'Eccentric Chuck' and 'Fixed Sliding Rest': my great wish and aim have been to confine my specimens of work to such as can be produced by the most economical apparatus, and, I flatter myself, the descriptions given with the plates will be found sufficiently clear and distinct, to enable any amateur, however young in the art, to accomplish any of them, should they be deemed worthy of imitation."—Preface.

Keywords: APPLIED ART ORNAMENTAL TURNING DESIGN, ANTIQUARIAN