Home and house maintenance

This book contains a detailed guide to manual wood carving, including information on tools, materials, and technique.

Carpentry for Boys' is a wonderful guide to woodworking for young boys, including detailed chapters on drawing, laying out work, designing, and architecture.

This fascinating text contains comprehensive handbook on intarsia and marquetry from the 'Handbooks for The Designer and Craftsman' series.

Contained within this antique book is a simple and concise guide to some of the most useful and simple joining methods used in woodworking.

This vintage book is detailed instructions for the making of dolls house furniture and accessories.

This book contains a collection of wood craft projects for children.

This text contains a wonderful little guide to the designing and making of vintage wooden boxes.

This text comprises a comprehensive handbook pertaining to the designing and making of vintage lamps and light fixtures.

Contained within this antique book is a wonderful little guide to wood carving, including information on the tools, techniques, and materials necessary for successful carving.

This text contains a detailed but easy-to-follow guide on making wooden stools.

Contained within this book is a comprehensive guide to making chairs, complete with easy-to-follow instructions and a wealth of helpful information on tools, technique, and materials.

This book contains a comprehensive guide to hand-making wooden furniture for your kitchen.

This vintage book is a comprehensive and accessible manual for building dolls houses and furniture.

This book contains a lovely collection of fretwork patterns.

This book contains a lovely collection of designs for the making of wooden toys for children.

This book contains a lovely collection of designs for the construction of kitchen furniture and accessories from wood.

Contained within this antique book is a detailed guide to designing and creating your own living room furniture, including step-by-step guides for building tables, bookcases, and cabinets.

This fascinating book contains a detailed and easy-to-follow guide to designing and constructing doors and door frames for the home.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This book contains a lovely little guide to designing and constructing wooden garden furniture and accessories, including information on collecting and mounting moths and butterflies.

This little book contains information on making dainty gifts for ladies.

This book is a collection of homemade furniture and household accessories.

This interesting collection of outdoor furniture is ideal for the hands-on gardener, with vintage designs and patterns for bird tables, a novel garden barrow, folding chairs and a tea wagon, all made from wood.

This book deals in non-technical language with everything that the average handyman will need to know about the staining and French polishing of various woods.

Contained within this book is a detailed guide to French polishing, including information on technique, tools, materials, and much more.

This text contains a comprehensive guide to furniture making, including information on making tables, chairs, bookshelves, sideboards, chests, and much more.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This antique text comprises a detailed guide pertaining to the construction of bird cages for use inside the home.

This handy guide contains a wealth of information on lamps.

This vintage book is a complete guide to owning "e;long-houses"e; and "e;dragon-boats"e;, being a comprehensive handbook on everything from buying and building to managing and maintaining.

This text comprises everything one might need to know about the art of American quilting and patchwork.

Contained within this antique book is a comprehensive discussion of the history of hops, including information on different uses, methods of cultivation, related equipment, and much more.

This book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of the home-brewing enthusiast.

This antiquarian volume contains a guide to building houses, with information on planning, materials, architecture, tools, technique, and much more besides.

Four experts in the field write about yeast.

This book contains a comprehensive guide to the successful growing of mushrooms, written with the absolute beginner in mind.

The Lampshade Book' is the definitive guide to the designing and creation of lampshades for light fixtures in the home.

A detailed treatise on wood carving, including practical tips for amateurs, and a short history of the art.

Originally published in early 1900s.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This book contains a practical guide for the amateur in carpentry, lathe working, joinery, ornamental woodwork, the use of tools, and the selection of timber.

Cassell's Carpentry and Joinery' is a practical work on practical handicrafts, and it was first published in the confident belief that it was by far the most exhaustive book on these subjects hitherto produced.

"e;How to Produce Extracted Honey"e; is a detailed guide to processing honey from beehives, with information on hive management, equipment, common problems, and more.

Contained within this volume is a complete guide to gardening in New Zealand, with chapters on Bee-keeping and poultry-breeding.

Taken from the sixty-fifth annual report of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, this is an analysis of the importance of honey in the early twentieth century.

This vintage book contains comprehensive instructions for designing and constructing a range of furniture from simple footstools to ornate folding tables.

This book contains a vintage guide to furniture arrangement and interior deign.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to carpentry workshop practice, being a complete handbook designed for students, apprentices, mechanics, and others who could benefit from training in woodwork.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to upholstery, with information on leather, silk, plush, reps, cottons, velvets, carpetings, stuffing, embossing, welting, and covering all kinds of household furniture.

This vintage book contains a historical account of English Ironwork, being a detailed analysis of seventeenth and eighteenth century English smithery with a particular focus on influential craftsmen.