Antique woodworking tools : their craftsmanship from the earliest times to the twentieth century
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Antique woodworking tools : their craftsmanship from the earliest times to the twentieth century
Classmark: Bedford Collection C221
Creator(s): Russell, David R (1935-)
Additional creator(s): Lesage, Robert (Contributor); Austin, James (1940-) (Photographer); Austin, Pauline (Photographer); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: John Adamson in association with Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books, London
Publication city: Cambridge
Date(s): 2010
Language: English
Size and medium: 527 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/733910
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019978494805181
Description
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.
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.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C221: Contains 3 loose items: 1: Book review: David R. Russel...Antique woodworking tools ... by Treve Rosoman (Regional Furniture Society Newsletter No. 55, Autumn 2011). 2: Antique woodworking tools by Treve Rosoman (Furniture History Society Newsletter No. 183 Aug. 2011). 3: Flyer/order form.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C221: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: JT/25.
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