Excerpt from A Handbook on Japanning and Enamelling for Cycles, Bedsteads, Tinware, Etc IN writing the following pages, I have had in View the requirements more particularly of the small tradesmen in our country towns, who, in consequence of the advances made during the past few years in the cycle industry, are often called on to do a job, and that at short notice, when, owing to their lack of apparatus and want of knowledge, they are compelled to send their work to Birmingham or London, at an additional delay and consequent expense. Another reason which impelled me to the writing of this little handbook was the fact that, so far as I have been able to ascertain, no similar work was in existence, and as there must be many tradesmen who would willingly fit up their own japanning plant if they only knew how, I trust to such my pages will commend themselves, as well as to others. With these few words of explanation and introduction, I leave my work in. 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.