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The Repertory of arts, manufactures, and agriculture
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The Repertory of arts and manufactures
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"Consisting of original communications, specifications of patent inventions, and selections of useful practical papers from the transactions of the philosophical societies of all nations, etc."
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The phantom bouquet : a popular treatise on the art of skeletonizing leaves and seed-vessels and adapting them to embellish the home of taste
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"This essay was written in the autumn of 1861 for the Atlantic Monthly, and accepted for publication by the editors of that popular Magazine; but the pressure upon its pages has prevented the appearance of an article which is so little in accordance with the tone of the current American literature during the past eventful year. The numerous applications to the author for instructions in the art of Skeletonizing have induced the determination to delay its publication no longer, and to change it from a magazine article to a small practical work, adapted to aid the tyro in attaining a perfect acquaintance with the subject of which it treats. It is hardly necessary to acknowledge the aid derived from numerous friends of both sexes, who have freely imparted the results of their experience in the matter in hand. Of course, all skeletonizers have learned by this time that it is only by communicating what they know that they can expect to receive in turn the ideas of others, and thus promote our beautiful pursuit to its true position among the liberal arts"--From preface.
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