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  [Illustration: FIRST-CLASS 5-IN. CENTRE LATHE, WITH TRAVERSING MANDREL
  AND OVERHEAD APPARATUS, BY JAMES MUNRO, LAMBETH.]




                        THE LATHE & ITS USES;

                                 OR,

                  INSTRUCTION IN THE ART OF TURNING
                           WOOD AND METAL.


                              INCLUDING
         A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST MODERN APPLIANCES FOR THE
             ORNAMENTATION OF PLANE AND CURVED SURFACES.


                          With an Appendix,

                       IN WHICH IS DESCRIBED AN

         ENTIRELY NOVEL FORM OF LATHE FOR ECCENTRIC AND ROSE
                 ENGINE TURNING; A LATHE AND PLANING
                          MACHINE COMBINED;

           _And other Valuable Mat