Excerpt from A Manual of Mending and Repairing: With Diagrams The author of this work modestly trusts that all who read it with care will admit that in it he has dis tinctly shown that mending or repairing, which has hitherto been regarded as a mere adjunct to other arts, is really an art by itself, if not a science, since it is based on chemical and other principles, which admit of extensive application and general combina tion. It has its laws - a fact which has never been hinted at by any writer, since all recipes for restora tion in existence are each singly inventions made to suit certain cases. This work has been conceived on a different principle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.