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Illustrations of useful arts and manufactures

Tomlinson, Charles, 1808-1897, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education · 1858 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · 38 pictures

Illustrations of Useful Arts and Manufactures is an 1858 London book published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, edited by Charles Tomlinson, presenting industrial processes for a general educated readership. Its pages are numbered engraved plates in sepia-toned line work, each cluster of small framed scenes showing workers, machinery, kilns and raw materials in workshops, with clear layouts a designer could borrow for process diagrams or infographic panels.

Industrial arts

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