. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. th this rabbet permits the back frameto be set in neatly and tightly screwed-through rails in edge oftop and bottom and into rabbet of ends. Little need be said about the door frames as there is only onerecognized method. For bookcases the framing should be nar-row to properly display book titles. The trimming at top ofdoors in Fig. 251 is a superficial ornament cut in ^<+-in. materialand glued in after the glass has been set in back of glazing strip. To bar out behind apparently locked doors every book in thehouse is to


. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. th this rabbet permits the back frameto be set in neatly and tightly screwed-through rails in edge oftop and bottom and into rabbet of ends. Little need be said about the door frames as there is only onerecognized method. For bookcases the framing should be nar-row to properly display book titles. The trimming at top ofdoors in Fig. 251 is a superficial ornament cut in ^<+-in. materialand glued in after the glass has been set in back of glazing strip. To bar out behind apparently locked doors every book in thehouse is to rob the home of much of its hospitable character, butfor those who truly love books as well as for the children who areacquiring the habit of reading, many books will surely find theirway about the table. Three forms of stands which will be foundconvenient for use are shown in Figs. 257, 258 and 259, those in 260 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN Figs. 257 and 259 being elastic, and that shown in Fig. 258 fixed,and more frequently being utilized for some specified set of. Fig. 257.—Book Stand.


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