The Circle Of The Mechanical Arts by Thomas Martin, 1813. Introduction
The Circle Of Mechanical Arts by Thomas Martin 1813 Some years ago Toby Hall gifted me with the EAIA copy of The Circle Of The Mechanical Arts by Thomas Martin, 1813. At the time the EAIA was selling off much of their reference library along with donating many texts as needed. Toby decided that, in recompense for my work on digitizing The Chronicle Of The Early American Industries Association, The Directory Of American Toolmakers along with a number of other publishing projects, I should have my pick of the texts displayed on the EAIA table at a Spicer Auction pre-show. Without hesitation I chose the only copy of Circle that I had ever seen outside of a library. My goal was to reproduce Circle as a true facsimile or as close as possible. At nearly 700 pages that was a tall order. I contracted with The HF group to image the book on their non-destructive equipment. A month later I received a DVD of 300 dpi high resolution B&W and RGB TIFF images. Text only pages were imaged in B&...