One of the most famous carpentry books is Peter Nicholson’s
“
Practical Carpentry, Joinery and Cabinet-Making; Being a New
and Complete System of Lines for the Use of Workmen…” you can buy modern
reprints of this book from about £10 and scruffy pre 1900 copies from around
£40 with anything all there and in one piece starting from around £80.
Anyway I bought a copy of this book, a fairly early edition
from 1835, so why is it published anonymously, is it possible he was ashamed
about spending sop much time in his shed?
We have another, later 1847 copy of the same book which has his name on
the title page.
Here in the bookshop we have a large section of books which
could be loosely described as armchair shed reading, people sidle and buy books
to read when their partners insist the come into the house.
Shed books are quite a big thing in the bookshop
On the Thanet shed front
Spending too much time in the shed results in...
Here are the books that went out today http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/the-carpenters-in-bookshop.html
Here are the books that went out today http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/the-carpenters-in-bookshop.html
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