Every model engineer should have a copy of this! Hasluck was British, but this reprint is from a 1907 American edition. There are 760 pages and 2206 illustrations here covering, in the first section on general metalworking: foundrywork, Smiths’ Work (meaning decorative iron work - how to do it and all the tools involved, 274 illustrations here alone), Forging or blacksmithing, Sheet Metal Work (177 illustrations), Decorative embossing of Sheet Metal, Brass Work, Lathes and tools (237 illustrations) etc, etc. You get designs and building instructions for: a 4 1/2” lathe with a 4’6” bed, an eight day, 18” high skeleton clock, a 2’ x 4 1/2” horizontal steam engine, a 1 1/2” x 2 1/4” vertical steam engine, three different boilers from a 7” dia and 13” long horizontal to a 8’ high vertical, a 2 1/2” x 2 1/2” gas engine and an 18” dia water wheel. You also learn about silver, copper and gold plating and brass gilding in the electroplating section - and there is a wire working chapter that shows how to do fancy wire screening of different lattices. Then there is the electric bell, the microscope, a four-draw telescope etc.! 2206 illustrations 760 pages. Hardbound. Lindsay Publications.