Workshop Receipts for the Use of Manufacturers, Mechanics and Scientific Amateurs [First Series]

First Series of Ernest Spon's celebrated Victorian technical compendium, published by E. & F. N. Spon, London, and Spon & Chamberlain, New York. This 1904 printing is the Second Edition, Revised, New Impression, with nearly 100 illustrations. Covers a remarkably wide range of workshop processes including electro-metallurgy, enamels, fireworks, japanning, lacquers, nitro-glycerine, photography, and varnishes. Of interest in the present context for its coverage of materials and processes directly relevant to early vehicle manufacture and maintenance.

• Author: Spon, Ernest
• Publisher: E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
• Place: London
• Year: 1904
• Edition: Second Edition, Revised, New Impression
• Physical: Hardback, 8vo, dark maroon cloth boards with elaborate embossed pictorial front cover listing contents including bronzes, cements, dyeing, electro-metallurgy, enamels, etching, fireworks, gilding, lacquers, photography, pottery and varnishes; with nearly one hundred illustrations; co-published in New York by Spon & Chamberlain
• Condition: Good/Fair (boards worn; embossed cover detail intact)