Antique Woodworking Tools - David R. Russell

Antique Woodworking Tools

Their Craftsmanship from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century
Buch | Hardcover
528 Seiten
2010
John Adamson (Verlag)
978-1-898565-05-5 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
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A stunning array of edge and boring tools from Britain, continental Europe and North America provides a survey of hand tool-making from prehistory to today.
Amassed over nearly forty years, the David Russell collection brings together a stunning array of edge and boring tools from Britain, continental Europe and North America, thus providing a broad survey of hand tool-making from prehistory to today. All the tools are illustrated with James Austin's photographs, with details and marks 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, craftsmen, industrial archaeologists and social and economic historians, as well as historians of material culture.

David Russell (1935-2018) was apprenticed as a joiner and cabinet-maker in Kendal. He was a collector of vintage woodworking tools for many years. James Austin read architecture and history of art at Jesus College, Cambridge, and at the Courtauld Institute, London. He took up photography of architecture and works of art. A contributor to many art and architectural books, his clients have included the National Trust, English Heritage, the Crafts Council, the Tate Gallery and the Sainsbury Collection in Norwich.

Tools from prehistory to the Romans; Anvils; Axes and adzes; Race knives; Saws; Rules and gauges; Compasses, dividers and drawing instruments; Bevels, squares and levels; Plumb bobs; Wooden planes; Metal planes; Chisels and gouges; Drills, braces and sash dowelling boxes; Glue-pots; Screwdrivers; Hammers; Bone and ivory tools; Spurious and altered items; Plane-iron marks; Bibliography; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.10.2010
Illustrationen James Austin
Zusatzinfo 935 photographs, 575 marks, 269 plane-iron marks, all in colour
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 336 x 417 mm
Gewicht 4290 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Heimwerken / Do it yourself
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
ISBN-10 1-898565-05-8 / 1898565058
ISBN-13 978-1-898565-05-5 / 9781898565055
Zustand Neuware
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