Main entry:

Russell, David R. (David Richard), 1935-

Title & Author:

Antique woodworking tools : their craftsmanship from the earliest times to the twentieth century / David R. Russell ; assisted by Robert Lesage ; with photographs by James Austin, assisted by his wife Pauline ; foreword by David Linley ; introduction by John Adamson ; cataloguing assisted by Peter Hackett.

Publication:

Cambridge : John Adamson in association with Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books, London, 2010.

Description:

527 pages : color illustrations ; 35 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-518) and index.
Tools from prehistory to Roman times -- Anvils and tongs -- Axes and adzes -- Race knives -- Saws -- Rules and gauges -- Compasses, dividers and drawing instruments -- Bevels, squares and levels -- Plumb bobs -- Wooden planes : Continental -- Wooden planes : English and Scottish -- Wooden planes : American -- Metal planes : Continental -- Metal planes : English and Scottish -- Metal planes : American -- Special planes -- English and Scottish tool-makers -- Chisels and gouges -- Boring tools : drills and braces -- Sash dowelling boxes and a sash template -- Glue pots or kettles -- Screwdrivers or turn-screws -- Hammers -- Bone and ivory tools -- Spurious and altered items -- Plane irons.
Text in English.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The David Russell collection brings together a stunning array of edge and boring tools from Britain, continental Europe and North America and provides a broad survey of hand tool-making from prehistory to today. All the tools are illustrated with James Austin's photographs, and details and marks are shown where appropriate. Special attention is given to planes, and the great British makers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are discussed in depth. Since prehistoric times there has been a never-ending quest for better ways to cut and bore wood. Along the way this has produced a wide variety of hand tools, and there are many where beauty and function meet. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including collectors, industrial archaeologists, social historians and historians of material culture.

ISBN:

9781898565055
1898565058

Subject:

Woodworking tools History Pictorial works.
Travail du bois Outillage Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Woodworking tools.

Form/genre:

Catalogs.
History.
Pictorial works.

Added entries:

Lesage, Robert.
Austin, James
Linley, David, 1961-
Adamson, John, 1949-
Hackett, Peter
Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books (Firm)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287492
Call No.: TT186 .R87 2010
Status: Available