From: "Ray DaSilva" <dasilva-AT-puppetbooks.co.uk> Subject: PUPT: New Automata book Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:34:06 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. This new book by Rodney Peppé has just arrived and it's the nicest piece of work I've seen for quite a while, it carries on from where Cabaret Mechanical Movement by L Onn and G Alexander leaves off and celebrates the work of many contemporary makers. The 165 full colour photos, several full-page, are just wonderful, and there are patterns for various mechanical pieces. Here is the publisher's jacket blurb: Automata and Mechanical Toys is an inspiring source book for everyone interested in this wonderful craft, whether you aspire to making a piece yourself, or developing your skills, or wish simply to understand the mechanisms that work these delightful objects. The book features twenty-one leading makers. Each has a distinctive style that characterises their work and with each their talent speaks for itself. With over a hundred examples of finished pieces, the book is a feast for collectors and enthusiasts keen to appreciate the many different and sophisticated skills required to make an apparently simple creation. A substantial section of the book is devoted to making automata mechanisms, to help both the beginner to get started and the more experienced to learn new techniques. Step-by-step instructions explain how to make a bearings box, which separately houses all the main mechanisms used in automata. The box can be converted, with friction-fitted pegs, to any mechanism you choose, and each part is colour-coded and numbered to be assembled, or dismantled and stored in a specially designed mechanisms box. It is hardbound with 160 quarto pages. The price is =A320 plus =A33.85 postage within UK. To the US this works out at approx $30.00 plus another $13.00 for airmail printed paper rate. It can be ordered from me by email or via my website. For the time being I have put it as the first item under BOOKSHOP > NEW BOOKS. Ray DaSilva 63 Kennedy Road Bicester, Oxon OX26 2BE. UK. Tel/Fax +44 (0)1869 245 793 email dasilva-AT-puppetbooks.co.uk Website http://www.puppetbooks.co.uk
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