ABSTRACT
The "art and mystery" of cabinet-making consists of two main branches - "general," and "fancy" cabinet work. The general cabinet-makers, as I have before stated, are employed upon all the large work, such as the manufacture of tables, cheff10niers, bookcases, wardrobes, sideboards, chairs, sofas, couches, and bedsteads. The fancy cabinet-makers, on the other hand, are the "small workers" of the trade, maimfacturing the lighter articles, such as desks, dressing-cases, work -tables and boxes, cribbage and chess boards, tea-caddies and tea-chests, &c. In my last Letter I gave a description of the condition and earnings of the "general cabinet-makers," working at the best shops for the best prices. In the present Letter I purpose treating of the other branch of the art - namely, the "fancy" part of it, or rather that portion of the fancy cabinet-workers who belong to the "honourable" trade; reserving till my next communication all account of the cheap or slop work, in connection with this and the ''general'' branch of cabinet-making.
