Museum - Books & Booklets : The Carpenter and Joiner

L'ART DU MENUISIER (THE ART OF THE JOINER). Andre Roubo. 1769-1774.

A selection of plates from the essential treatise on woodworking of the 18th Century.

plates 11 to 17: carpenter's and joiner's tools
plates 175 to 177: carriage-maker's tools
plate 278: veneer saw
plate 279: workbench

Contributed by Louis Michaud of the Oldtools eMail List.

THE AMATEUR CARPENTER AND BUILDER: A COMPLETE GUIDE IN EVERY DESCRIPTION OF CONSTRUCTIVE AND DECORATIVE WORK. WARD, LOCK & CO. LTD, MELBOURNE AND NEW YORK. c1904.

An excerpt, consisting of Chapter VIII: The Carpenter's Bench and It's Various Fittings, The Sawing Stool and Trestles. pp. 191-223. This book is actually a reprint of various articles from a late 19th C British journal.

More L'Art Du Menuisier, Andre Roubo

The New York Public Library Digital Collection holds an ever growing array of fascinating, interesting, engrossing, enjoyable, etc. etc., stuff. Fortunately for us, the powers that be saw fit to add a selection of pages from Roubo. Purely out of personal greed, I downloaded the images and assembled them as a PDF. No security, no watermarks, just a pdf. For enjoyment.

Please remember that this material is owned by the NYPL and is presented here solely for the purposes of research, education, pleasure and a whole lot of drooling.

Once you have looked over the PDF, head over to the NYPL Digital Collection.

Book Excerpt

Des Principes De L'Architecture, De La Sculpture, De La Peinture, Ed Des Aures Arts Qui En Dependent. Andre Felibien. Second Edition c1690?

Courtesy of Google Books comes this excerpt of Felibie' influential work on Architecture and the making thereof. I've excerpted the secion on Architecture and excluded the other half of the book on sculpture and painting. The entire work runs over 800 pages. This excerpt is around 300, but still under 10mb in size when finished.

The excerpt is available here.

If you want to read more of Felibien, there is the Wikipedia entry.

if you really want to read the entire book, here is the Google Books entry.