This Handbook contains, in a form convenient for E everyday use, a comprehensive digest of the knowledge of upholstery, scattered over more than twenty thousand columns of work — one Of the weekly journals it is my fortune to edit — and supplies concise information on the details of the subjects of which it treats. In preparing for publication in book form the mass Ofi relevant matter contained in the volumes of work, much had to be arranged anew. However, it may be stated that a great part of the contents of this Handbook consists substantially of matter contributed by a working Upholsterer.