The handbook of turning : containing instructions in concentric, elliptic, & eccentric turning : also various plates of chucks, tools, & instruments, and directions for using the eccentric cutter, drill, vertical cutter, and circular rest, with patterns and instructions for working them
A mid-nineteenth-century English manual on lathe work, published in London by Saunders & Otley in 1842, written to instruct turners in concentric, elliptic and eccentric turning. Its plates are engraved technical diagrams of chucks, cutters, rests and dividing instruments, with the pictured tools shown in isometric and sectional views. A designer might draw on their crisp hatched linework and mechanical precision for diagrams of machine parts, tooling or industrial process illustration.
