A Museum of Early American Tools, by Eric Sloane. This is an unabridged republication of the edition originally published by Funk and Wagnalls, New York, 1964. Republished by Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 2002. 8½ x 11 hardcover, with dust jacket, 108 pages, with over 184 black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 0-486-46303-6

A Museum of Early American Tools, by Eric Sloane. This is an unabridged republication of the edition originally published by Funk and Wagnalls, New York, 1964. Republished by Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 2002. 6½ x 9¼ paperbound, 114 pages, with over 184 black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 0-486-42560-6

Please note this book is new, not used. It is a reprint, not an original.

This fascinating, extremely important, and profusely illustrated book was largely responsible for the first great surge of interest in collecting old tools, and the research it inspired continues today. The classic text describes in detail scores of early American tools, and the wooden and metal artifacts made with them. Informally and charmingly written, the book covers building tools and methods; farm and kitchen implements; the tools of curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, black- smiths, coachmakers, loggers, tanners, and many other craftsmen of the preindustrial age.

Over 180 pen-and-ink sketches by the author accurately depict "special tools for every job," among them a hollowing gouge, twibil (double-bladed axe), hay fork, cornering chisel, apple butter paddle, chisel bit, boring auger, mortising chisel, a holding dog, printing mallet, rope twister, hauling sledge, winnowing tray, reaping hooks, splitting wedge, felling axe, propping saw horse, and other traditional implements.

Treat yourself to this sharp and clear reprint of a masterpiece prized by cultural historians and craftspeople who work with wood, metal, and other materials, tool collectors and Americana enthusiasts.

Table of Contents:

• The Romance of Tools
• Crude Shops, Magnificent Results
• An Ax Is an Axe!
• A World of Axes
• The Broad Axe
• How the Broad Axe Was Used
• A Giant and a Midget
• The Hatchet
• Hammers
• The Axe and the Log House
• The Adze
• Canoes and Bowls
• Wedges and Froes
• The Fine Art of Splitting
• Tools with Legs
• The American Horse
• For Making "Snitzels"
• Little Shavers and Big
• The Days of River Rafting
• Tools of the River Lumberman
• Of Cider and Apple Butter
• To Remove Bark
• Two Heads Are Better Than One
• The Chisel
• Chisels and Gouges
• Planes
• The Moulding Plane
• The Rabbet
• The Plow
• Early American Saws
• A Gallery of Frame Saws
• The Biggest Saws
• To Make a Hole
• To Make a Hole Bigger
• To Make a Bigger Hole
• The Brace or Bitstock
• The Things You'll Find in a Barn!
• Some Were Special
• These Were Tools Too!
• Jacks
• The Blacksmith
• Wrought Nailmaking
• Tanners and Curriers
• About Wheels
• It's All in the Way You Hit It
• Hay Implements
• Knives and Grass
• Found in the Barn