Salivet - Manuel du tourneur - 1796

Salivet, Louis-Georges-Isaac. Manual of the Turner.

Full title: Manual of the Turner's Work, a volume in which Amateurs are taught how to execute on the Lathe the turning of points, with a rest, in hand, between centers, eccentric, oval, with guillochage, square, for portraits, and others, all that the Art has produced that is most ingenious and most agreeable.

Volume II only.

Paris, Hamelin-Bergeron merchants. 1796. In-4. 466 + XXXII pages. Half-black morocco binding with calf-veneered boards. Smooth spine richly adorned with title and volume number. Marbled edges.

Original edition for this second volume published four years after the first volume (1792) of this manual, one of the most complete works on the art of turning on wood, metal, ivory, etc... A work in good condition. Some rubbing on the spine with minute losses at the top part and rubbing to the joints (see photos). Significant damp staining and partly faded on the initial pages (see photos). A small hole on a page of engraving (see photo).

Volume II comprises 42 folding plates.

The true author of this work, known under the name Manuel Bergeron, after its editor, is the lawyer and man of letters Louis-Georges-Isaac Salivet (1737-1805).

This original edition covers many subjects. The simplest will interest all turners: use of materials (wood, but also horn, tortoiseshell and ivory), tooling, turning between centers and on the rest. Other, more complex techniques are also treated in detail: polyhedra, stars and Canton balls, oval turning, square turning or turning with several curves. Ornamental turning is finally described in particular detail with the use of the guillochage lathe, portrait turning, and epicycloid.

A somewhat rare work, well complete with its 42 folding plates.