Joinery and Carpentry: 6 Volumes; A Practical and Authoritative Guide Dealing with all Branches of the Craft of Woodworking

London: The New Era Publishing Co. Second Edition (Reprint). Very good/good. Hardcover : pp. [iv] ix [x] 294 : [iv] ix [xii] 257 [260] : [iv] ix [xii] 227 [228] : [iv] x [xii] 263 [264] : [iv] x [xii] 327 [328] : [iv] x [xii] 316 : all volumes illustrated with black and white line drawings, diagrams, figures and photo illustrations, some folded : maroon cloth boards with faded gilt lettering : top edge dye : each volume wrapped in brown paper jacket and housed in a lovely cardboard box, with pasted on label.

Boards foxed and rubbed; foxing to block edges, endpapers, first and last few pages and occasionally throughout : jackets foxed, edges nicked, curled and a little tender; lower part of box missing staples or glue at one end, upper part of box foxed, tide marked and stained; remnant of sticker to top of box. and tape to sides. Volume I - The Selection and Use of Tools; The Workshop and it's Equipment; Joints, Fastenings, and Fixings; Machine Woodworking : Volume II - Doors, Frames, and Panelling; Windows; Geometry : Volume III - Timber; Stairs and Handrails; Floors; Partitions : Volume IV - Roofs; House Fitments; Church Fittings; Circular Work and Setting-Out; The Carpenter's Steel Square : Volume V - Technical Drawings; Veneering; Timber-Framed Buildings; Calculations; Design and Ornament; Shop Fronts and Fittings : Volume VI - Ship Joinery; Temporary Work; Mechanics; Bank and Office Fittings; Administration of a Joinery Business; Formwork; Glossary.

Authors include, Thomas Corkhill, Leonard Lowsley, J.F. Dowsett, J.C. Stevens, Charles H. Hancock, S.G. Duckworth, Charles Hayward, J. Miller and J.H. Bennetts.