Ancient Carpenters' Tools, illustrated and explained together with the implements of the lumberman, joiner and cabinet marker, in use in the eighteenth century
Doylestown, Pennsylvania: The Bucks County Historical Society, 1929. Hardcover. Faint turquoise cloth, 328 pp., 248 BW illus. G (Ex-art library with label mark on spine and bookplate and few marks; outermost pages are faintly foxed; majority of the pages are aged but clean.). Item #152064
The first edition of this classic, well-illustrated reference about carpentry tools of the 1700s. According to the author: "Except for purposes of comparison, the specimens here shown have been collected in the United States, chiefly in Pennsylvania, but a short study of them will soon convince us, that though made in America, they were not invented there, but represent long-existing types of world-wide use, brought thither by the Colonists; hence, that the collection is neither local nor national, but international and of general ethnologic interest." (preface).
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