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Two Unique Books on “Handy-Works”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Two eighteenth century technical treatises — Mechanick Exercises: or the Doctrine of Handy-Works, 1703, by Joseph Moxon, and The Practical House Carpenter, 1796, by William Pain — have been presented to the Society by William Butler, one of our members.

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