Woodwork for Beginners

Wood Finishing

Textile Fabrics and Their Preparation for Dyeing

Leather Working

Knotting and Splicing Ropes and Cordage

Garden Accessories

Smiths’ Work

How to Write Signs, Tickets and Posters

Cycle Building and Repairing

The Wood Turner’s Handybook

Metalworking

The Clock Jobber’s Handybook

The Book of Photography

Basket Work of all Kinds

Bamboo Work

Taxidermy

Practical Graining And Marbling

Cassell’s Carpentry and Joinery

Engraving Metals

Paul Nooncree Hasluck was born in April 1854, in South Australia. The third son of Lewis Hasluck, of Perth, the family moved to the UK when Hasluck was still young. He subsequently lived in Herne Bay (Kent), before moving to 120 Victoria Street, London, later in life.

Hasluck was the secretary of the 'Institution of Sanitary Engineers' – an organisation dedicated to promoting knowledge of, and development in the field of urban sanitation. Hasluck was also the editor of several magazines and volumes over his lifetime, including Work Handbooks, and Building World. He was an eminently knowledgeable and talented engineer, and wrote many practical books. These included such titles as; Lathe-Work: A Practical Treatise on the Tools employed in the Art of Turning (1881), The Watch-Jobber's Handy Book (1887), Screw-Threads, and Methods of Producing Them (1887), and an eight volume series on The Automobile as well as a staggering eighteen volumes of Mechanics Manuals.

In his personal life, Hasluck married in 1883, to 'Florence' – and the two enjoyed a happy marriage, though his wife unfortunately died young, in 1916. Hasluck himself died on 7th May, 1931, aged seventy-seven.