This volume contains a detailed manual for the electroplater, giving methods of polishing, plating, buffing, oxidizing, and lacquering metals. Written in plain language and profusely illustrated, this text will be of much interest to the electroplater and to anyone with a keen interest in collecting antiquarian books of this ilk. The chapters of this book include: 'Various kinds of Electroplaters'; 'Some Points on Hygiene for Platers'; 'The Polishing Room and its Machinery and Management'; 'Acid Drips and Pickles, Their Composition and Uses'; 'The Arrangement and Management of the Plating Room'; 'The Construction and Management of Dynamos and Wiring', etcetera. This text was first published in 1904, and is proudly republished now complete with a new introduction on metal work.