"Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught" by Joshua Rose is an essential manual for any aspiring artist who wants to add drawing machines to their list of skills. Though the machinery and techniques in the text were modern at the time it was released, they're now vintage and antique machines, which makes this an even more valuable text as getting a chance to see such machines in person is now a rarity.

A discussion of hand-drafting with geometric exercises for various difficulty levels, covering working drawings, tools and conventions used in the trade, pattern-workshop drawings, penetrations, and more, with illustrations and a glossary.

This book covers most of the contents given in Engineering Drawing and Technical Drawing courses that are given at the undergraduate level for Engineering students. It is written in a short and precise way that is easy to read and understand and cover the following topics: Introduction, Theory of Projections, Multiview Drawings, Pictorial Drawings, Auxilary Views, Sectional Views and Development and Intersection of surfaces.