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Product Description: The ornamental or complex lathe, with its infinite capability for shaping and decorating, was perfected by the Holtzapffel family of London between 1780 and 1914. This amazing machine makes use of a broad range of attached tools, engineering works of art in themselves, to turn hardwood — and, at the time, ivory — into an astonishing variety of intricate patterns...read more

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9780486229652, titled "The Principles & Practice of Ornamental or Complex Turning" | Dover Pubns, February 15, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The ornamental or complex lathe, with its infinite capability for shaping and decorating, was perfected by the Holtzapffel family of London between 1780 and 1914.
9780486265674 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, December 1, 1990), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: First paperback edition of definitive guide to turning on the complex or ornamental lathe, the high Victorian art par excellence.

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Product Description: In HAND OR SIMPLE TURNING, Holtzapffel introduces the reader to all phases of the simple lathe. A very full historical introduction traces the development of the individual parts of the lathe from India, Persia and China up to the modern foot lathe still used in the 20th century...read more

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9780486264288 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, October 1, 1990), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In HAND OR SIMPLE TURNING, Holtzapffel introduces the reader to all phases of the simple lathe.

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