Excerpt from The Goldsmith's Handbook: Containing Full Instructions for the Alloying and Working of Gold Having been frequently applied to by gold workers and others, with reference to certain difficulties relating to their trade, which they were unable to overcome mechanically, the idea pre sented itself to the mind Of the Author, that a work fmdz'mlly treating on the Uses and Appli cations of Gold, having special regard to the business of the goldsmith and jeweller, would be a useful auxiliary to the artificer also, by affording him a constant means for consultation and instruc tion. 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.