If you go to the gutenberg project and search for wood turning this is what I found. It is free for reading but look at the license they give. You can download and read in the US but other contries I don't know.
This was froma quick search.
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48179/48179-h/48179-h.htm
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A
MANUAL
OF THE
HAND LATHE:
COMPRISING
CONCISE DIRECTIONS
FOR
WORKING METALS OF ALL KINDS, IVORY, BONE AND PRECIOUS
WOODS; DYEING, COLORING, AND FRENCH POLISHING;
INLAYING BY VENEERS, AND VARIOUS METHODS
PRACTICED TO PRODUCE ELABORATE WORK
WITH DISPATCH, AND AT SMALL EXPENSE.
BY EGBERT P. WATSON,
LATE OF “THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN,” AUTHOR OF “THE MODERN PRACTICE OF
AMERICAN MACHINISTS AND ENGINEERS.”
ILLUSTRATED BY SEVENTY-EIGHT ENGRAVINGS.
PHILADELPHIA:
HENRY CAREY BAIRD, INDUSTRIAL PUBLISHER,
406 WALNUT STREET.
LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, SON & MARSTON,
Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet St.
1869.
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I have not read it yet but will put it on my pad to look at later.
Stu