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This compact volume is a complete and handy guide to cutting gentlemen's clothing, including tips for trousers, vests, coats, and more.Gentlemen's Garment Cutting is Percival Thickett's pattern-making book for men's clothing. The complete guide features extensive illustrations, including black-and-white diagrams, photographs, and drawings. Intended for those with some pattern-making experience, this volume contains drafts from the original tailor and clothier.This volume's contents features:- Trouser Cutting- Plus Fours- Riding Breeches- Vest Cutting- Coat Cutting- Cutting of Overgarments- Cutting for Corpulent Figures

This vintage book contains a complete guide to making a gloves, with detailed directions for using leather, employing patterns, cutting, stitching, and everything else one might need to know. With simple instructions and a wealth of useful tips, this timeless handbook will be of considerable utility to readers wishing to make their own gloves. Contents include: "The Choice of Leathers", "Patterns and How to Adapt Them", "Making Up", "Fur-Backed Gloves", "Polish Slippers", "Gloves in Wool, Worked Sideways", "Gloves for Every Occasion", "For Good Sports!", "For Little Ones!", "Abbreviations and Terms Used in Knitting and Crocheting", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on sewing gloves.

Written by the English astrophysicist, Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), and originally published in 1920, 'Space, Time and Gravitation' outlines the general theory of relativity in astrophysics. This fascinating early work navigates Einstein's theory through a series of perspectives - that of the experimental physicist, pure mathematician, and relativist, making it a wonderful read for the student, teacher or astrophysics enthusiast today. Contents include: Arthur Eddington; Preface; Prologue; 'What Is Geometry?'; 1 - The Fitzgerald Contraction; 2 - Relativity; 3 - The World of Four Dimensions; 4 - Fields of force; 5 - Kinds of Space; 6 - The New Law of Gravitation and the Old Law; 7 - Weighing Light; 8 - Other Tests of the Theory; 9 - Momentum and Energy; 10 - towards infinity; 11 - Electricity and Gravitation; 12 - On The Nature of Things; Appendix; Mathematical Notes; Historical Note. This classic text is being republished in a modern and affordable edition, complete with reproductions of the original illustrations and a specially written concise biography.

Authored by various experts, this vintage series of books reveals how to create traditional British sweets, long-loved by young and old, and is sure to delight anyone with an interest in old-time confectionary. This edition instructs the reader in how to make marzipan, including marzipan sweets and nuts, and decorative fruits, leaves and flowers. Full contents: Confectionery - The Making of Marzipans - Marzipan Sweets and Others - Marzipan Fruits, Nuts, Flowers and Leaves - Marzipan Fruits and Flowers - Marzipan. We are republishing this charming, classic text in a high quality, affordable edition, complete with a newly written introduction. Other topics in the series include: Boiled Sweets, Fudge and Nougat.