Home and house maintenance

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.

This is a vintage handbook on how to clean rural sports equipment and clothing.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to triangulation as applied to sheet metal pattern cutting, originally designed for the use of cutters, draughtsmen, foremen, and students.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on the treatment of tool-steel in forging, annealing, hardening, tempering, etc.

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on high-speed steel, including information on its properties, uses, and development, together with hints and tips concerning common problems.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise on horseshoeing and the anatomy of the foot of the horse designed for equestrians, veterinarians, farriers and the amateur horseshoer.

This vintage book contains an instructional treatise on sheet metal drafting.

This vintage book contains a handbook of useful information originally designed for inspectors, surveyors, engineers, factory foremen, and the general steam-using public.

This vintage book contains a collection of notes originally written for the guidance of the staff in an iron and steel works laboratory.

This vintage book contains a collection of articles on the subject of blacksmithing, many of which were originally to be found in "e;The Blacksmith and Wheelwright"e;.

This vintage book contains a collection of articles on the subject of blacksmithing, many of which were originally to be found in "e;The Blacksmith and Wheelwright"e;.

This vintage book contains a collection of articles on the subject of blacksmithing, many of which were originally to be found in "e;The Blacksmith and Wheelwright"e;.

This is a vintage textbook designed for students learning to use a forge at school.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the problems of geometry and measurement encountered by sheet metal workers.

This vintage book contains a detailed but concise guide to machine blacksmithing, with information on setting up and maintaining a blacksmith shop, the correct use of tools and equipment, and more.

This vintage book contains a practical instruction manual for the apprentice or assistant sheet metal worker.

This vintage book contains a complete survey of the artistic working of iron in Great Britain from the earliest times until 1922.

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on high-speed and carbon tool steels.