TOOLS FOR THE TRADES AND CRAFTS: An Eighteenth Centures Pattern Book R. Timmins & Sons Ltd

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This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in green buckram covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper has a small area of loss to the top edge but is still in near fine condition, it has now been covered in clear, removable, mylar, protective film. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This book is the first definitive study of English Pattern Books and their influence on American imports and tool design This documented account includes footnotes, bibliography, industrial history of Birmingham 1750 - 1850. Reproduced here is R. Timmins and Sons 1791 - 1889 Pattern Book of circa 1845, with commentary on the various plates. Tools illustrated with detailed identification, includes those in the trades and crafts of the shoemaker, saddler, harnessmaker, cooper, carpenter and joiner, butcher, farmer, farrier and blacksmith, lumberman, mason, plasterer shipbuilder and sailmaker, cook, dressmaker, artist and draughtsman, dentist and surgeon, barber, wigmaker, minerologist and wiredrawer. Ref SSS 1.

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Título

TOOLS FOR THE TRADES AND CRAFTS: An Eighteenth Centures Pattern Book R. Timmins & Sons Ltd

Editor

Ken Roberts Publishing Co., Fitzwilliam N.H.

Fecha de publicación

1976

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Edición

1st Edition

Estado

As New

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Near Fine