This classic text describes in detail scores of early American tools, and the wooden and metal artifacts made with them. The book covers building tools and methods: farm and kitchen implements: tools of curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, coachmakers, loggers, tanners, and other craftsmen of the preindustrial age.

Softbound 184 black and white illustrations 6-1/2 by 9-1/4.