8vo. 176pp. With two initial large folding diagrams, 16 further engraved plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. Original publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, with printed paper lettering-piece to upper board and manuscript paper label to spine.

The third edition, in original cloth, of a treatise on ornamental turning by geometrician and inventor John Holt Ibbetson (1771-1844), creator of the Geometric Chuck and author of multiple works detailing its purpose and potential industrial use, among them A practical view of an invention for the better protecting bank-notes against forgery; illustrated by various specimens (1820), and A brief account of Ibbetson's Geometric Chuck manufactured by Holtzapffel & Co., with a selection of 32 specimens illustrative of some of its powers (1833), of which the original draft featured manuscript additions by pioneer of the art, John Jacob Holtzapffel (1768–1835).