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KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP
KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP
KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP
KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP
KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP
KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP
KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP
KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP
KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP
KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP

KEN ROBERTS Tools For the Trades and Crafts R Timmins & Sons First Edition OOP

$ 26.39

Availability: 70 in stock
  • Condition: USED. Please see all photos as they are of the actual book you will receive (not stock). Dust jacket has fading/sun damage on spine and tears along top and bottom edges (including on spine). Leather boards/covers are in good shape with a few small spots of wear. Gold stamping is in good shape. On insides, the copyright page has a name/inscription at top of page (see photo), otherwise, insides are clean and in great shape. Please see all photos and let me know if you have any questions.
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Brand: Ken Roberts Publishing
  • Modified Item: No
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    Tools for the Trades and Crafts
    An Eighteenth Century Pattern Book
    R Timmins & Sons, Birmingham
    with Documentary by Kenneth D. Roberts (Fitzwilliam, NH)
    222 pages
    Hardcover with dust jacket
    9" x 11-1/4"
    Published by Ken Roberts Publishing in 1976.
    First Edition / First Printing.
    Inside Cover Description:
    "Tools for the Trades and Crafts 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 and recommended further reading concerning English metal pattern books of the nineteenth century.
    Reproduced here is R. Timmins & Sons, 1791-1889 Pattern Book of c.1845, with commentary on the various plates. Details about the printing, alteration and re-engraving of plates is not only useful information for understanding the particular pattern book, but also has wider implications for the historian of commercial engravings in other fields.
    Tools illustrated, with detailed identification, including 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, slater, cook, dressmaker, artist and draftsman, dentist and surgeon, barber and wigmaker, mineralogist, and wiredrawer.
    For the first time the collector and historian have a comprehensive book on the influence of the English pattern book on American tools."
    A Must-Have reference for early reference for collectors!
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