Ancient carpenters' tools, illustrated and explained, together with the implements of the lumberman, joiner and cabinet maker, in use in the eighteenth century / by Henry C. Mercer, D. Sc. author of "The Hill Cves of Yucatan, Antiquity of Man in the Delaware Valley and Eastern United States, The Lenape Stone, The Bible in Iron, etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carpentry--Tools.

Carpentry.

Penn Provenance:

University of Pennsylvania. Library (inscription) (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Manufacture:

Portland, Maine : Printed in the United States by The Southworth Press.

Place of Publication:

Doylestown, Pennsylvania : The Bucks County Historical Society, 1929.

Contents:

Tools for felling, splitting and log sawing

Tools for moving and measuring

Tools for Holding and gripping

Tools for surfacing, chopping and paring

Tools for shaping and fitting

Tools for fastening and unfastening

Tools for sharpening

Errata.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Reprinted, in part, from Old-time New England, the bulletin of the Society for the preservation of New England antiquities."

Printed in double columns.

Blue cloth boards lettered and ruled in black.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-308) and index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "For the Library of the University of Pennsylvania with the compliments of H. C. Mercer. August 1, 1929".

Culture Class Collection copy is embossed stamp University of Pennsylvania Library.

OCLC:

1616043