Chris is getting ready for his talks at Colonial Williamsburg’s Working Wood in the 18th Century conference (Jan. 25-28), and had all (some?) of the books he’s discussing arrayed across several benches. So we grabbed the microphones and a camera, and recorded a little bit about each one; he will of course have more to say when he’s on stage in Williamsburg…including closing remarks I cut out here at the end (so apologies for the abrupt cessation of Christopher’s comedy stylings).
I expect I’ll never get these books back in the same place in the library. Oh well.
I’m delighted to now have my copies of all three Anarchist’s books.
Next will be Campaign Furniture & Mouldings in Practice.
I’m wondering what info might not be in these volumes…..
Keeping my library small is my goal but your biased opinions are more valuable…..
What say all of you?
My library is both large and small. I have all the paper volumes. They are all worthwhile. I also have them all in pdf format on my tablet. Big and small.
Sundays are book days at LAP! Yay. I also saw two that I did not already have, which is fantastic. I’ve already found and ordered them, before the rush.
Thank you for sharing this, I would love to see this in person. I do own many of the lost art press books and only wish i would have had these books 30 years ago.
Kinda sad to see Chris ditching mechanical watches for an apple watch, but I get it
On pronunciation: I don’t know for sure, but I think “Feirer” would be pronounced Fie’rer.
In any case, follow the advice of Professor Strunk in Elements of Style: if you don’t know how to pronounce a word, say it loud.
I think the name is german, and in Germany the ei would be pronounced like our long letter i. Have no idea how he would have: lots of Americans pronounce ei like ee.
I came across a fantastic quote yesterday from a great video by Wyoming Public Broadcasting about a 91-year old man who has spent countless hours building amazingly intricate miniatures of historic objects using any and all trades and arcane arts he could put to the task, including no small amount of (teeny tiny) woodworking.
“I’d get articles or whatever and what I needed to figure out how to make everything authentic. I found books that explained it. I had a guy tell me one time, ‘What I know that I didn’t learn from no dang book.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, but how much do you know?’
“I said, ‘I thought that’s what they made books for was us to teach us.’”
I’m sure almost everyone in the LAP Extended Universe will absorb that quote as warmly as I did.
Here’s the video:
https://youtu.be/qydCorJccOM?si=KZLMwIeEvr2zxMwr
Enjoy!
(I was gonna post about this on the Open Wire yesterday, but I’m glad I didn’t get to it; this is a much better place.)
what? you haven’t added a LAP fractional system cataloging all the books and their exact location in the library??
Thanks for the entertaining video! I do regret the omission of Chris’ favorite anecdote concerning Einstein and Socrates arguing whether pins or tails come first. “Pin the tail on the donkey!” is a great punchline.
Where is the link to view the video?
I was excited to hear the comment on the last book on Chris’s bench!! Oh well…
For anyone interested in the Manwaring book, this link might be helpful: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?id_person=A7398
What brand shirt is that?
Old Town
The Félibien book
(with the very 17th century title Des principes de l’architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dépendent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts)
can be read
(by those who read French and are willing to cope with pre-modern spelling)
at:
https://archive.org/details/desprincipesdela00feli/mode/2up
The “De la Menuiserie” (On Joinery) chapter of greatest interest to woodworkers begins on page 126, and its plates start on 130.
(BTW, a good attempt at the pronunciation of his name for English speakers would be FAY-leeb-YENN.)