The Art of Blacksmithing

Revised edition. 436pp, with more than 500 illustrations. Quarter bound in black cloth over paper-covered boards (boards just a little soiled, cloth rounded at spine ends). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, illustrated dust jacket (slightly bumped along upper edge, small nick on upper rear corner). 8vo. With a history of art of blacksmithing, this most a description and discussion of the tools and techniques of the blacksmith. If you want to know how an 18th century iron hinge was made, or how a muzzle-loading rifle barrel was welded, this is the book for you.