These are books that have helped me, been of interest, or are just a pleasure to read. They cover tools, trades, crafts and allied/hybrid areas of interest. Quite a lot of these are out of print, so you may need to look in second hand bookshops, or search online for sources.
Percy W.
Blandford Country Craft
Tools Swan Hill Press
1997
ISBN 1 85310 823 5
R. A.
Salaman Dictionary of Woodworking Tools
AstragalPress 1997
ISBN 1 879335 79 4
John M. Whelan
The Wooden Plane Its History, Form
and Function AstragalPress
1993
ISBN 9 781879 335325
Kenneth D.
Roberts Some 19th Centuary English
Woodworking Tools
Ken Roberts
Publishing Co. Fitzwilliam N.H.
1980
ISBN 0 913602 68 X
Stanley/Ruskin
Gallery The Cutting
Edge Ruskin Gallery Sheffield
1992
ISBN 0 86321 163 1
W. L Goodman British Plane Makers From 1700 Bell and Sons Ltd 1968
C. W. Hampton Planecraft C. & J. Hampton Ltd. 1934
W.L. Goodman British Plane Makers from 1700 G. Bell & Sons Ltd. 1968
Richard
Filmer Edward
Elwell's Catalogue Roy Arnold
2000
ISBN 0 904638 13 8
Jane and Mark
Rees Fussells of
Mells TATHS
2001
ISBN 0 947673 13 X
F.
Lambert Tools and Devices for
Coppice Crafts
Young Farmers
Club 1957
Elizabeth
Agate Tool Care BTCV
1995
ISBN 0 946752 13 3
Philip
Walker Woodworking
Tools Shire
1980
ISBN 0 85263 501 X
Eric
Sloane Museum of Early American
Tools Ballentine Books
1974
SBN 345 23571 1
Phil Gault Collector's Guide Early American Tools L-W Promotions 1974
Philip
Walker The Victorian Catalogue of Tools
for Trades and Crafts Studio Editions
1994
ISBN 1 85891 120 6
Paul N.
Hasluck The Handyman's
Book Senate
1998
ISBN1 85891 254 7
D. Cook The Ax Book Hood 1999 ISBN 0-911469-16-8
Roy Underhill The Woodwright's Shop Chapel Hill 1981 ISBN 0-8078-4082-3
Roy
Underhill The Woodwrights
Companion Chapel Hill
1983
ISBN 0-8078- 4095-5
The Rev. W. D Parish A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect Gardeners 1957 (good for local tool names)
Charles
McRaven The Blacksmith's
Craft Storey
2005
ISBN-10: 1-58017-593-7
Aldren A.
Watson The
Blacksmith Norton
2000
ISBN 0-393-32057-X
Jack
Andrews The Edge of the
Anvil Rodale
Press
ISBN 0-87857-186-8
Alexander G.
Weygers The Complete Modern
Blacksmith
Ten Speed Press
1997
ISBN 0-89815-896-6
Karl-Gunnar Noren & Lars
Enander Swedish Blacksmithing
Nilsen & Noren Forlag
2008
ISBN 978-91-975634-8-2
The Blacksmith'sCraft Rural Industries Bureau 1952
K. L. Barraclough Sheffield
Steel Moorland Publishing
Company 1976
ISBN 0903485 31 1
Scissors
Sam Scissors Sam says Be
Sharp Scrimshaw Press/Capricorn Press
1972
ISBN 0-912020-28-8
Gaius Carley Memoirs of Gaius Carley Moore & Tillyer 1963
H. L. Edlin Woodland Crafts in Britain Batsford 1949
H. L. Edlin Forestry and Woodland Life Batsford 1947
H. L.
Edlin Trees, Woods and
Man NN 32 Collins
New Naturalist 1978
ISBN 0 00
219531 3
J. Geriant
Jenkins Traditional Country
Craftsmen Routledge &
Kegan Paul 1978
ISBN 0 7100
8726 8
J. E.
Manners Country Crafts
Today David and Charles
1978
ISBN 0 7153 6560 6
Dorothy
Hartley Made in
England Century
1987
ISBN 0 7126 1705 7
Dorothy Hartley The Countryman's England Batsford 1935
James
Arnold Country
Crafts John Baker
1968
SBN 212 99821 8
James Arnold The Countryman's Workshop Phoenix 1953
Norman Wymer English Country Crafts Batsford 1946
Devon
Hedges Devon Hedge Group
and Devon County Council
ISBN 978-1-84785-043-0
Valerie
Greaves Hedgelaying
Explained National Hedgelaying
Society
ISBN 0 9511735 0 2
Walter Rose The Village Carpenter Cambridge 1946
George Sturt The Wheelwright's Shop Cambridge 1943
Mummery (et al) A Guide to Techniques for Coppice Management Woodland Craft Supplies 1998 ISBN 0 9529849 1 1
Mike Abbot Green Woodwork Guild of Master Craftsmen 1989
Mike
Abbot Living Wood
Living Wood Books
2002
ISBN 0 9542345 0 2
Ray
Tabor The Encyclopedia of Green
Woodworking eco-logic books
2000
ISBN 1 899233 07 5
Ivan G.
Sparkes Woodland
Craftsmen Shire
1991
ISBN 0 85263 381 5
Howard I.
Chapelle Boatbuilding
Norton
1969
ISBN 0 -393-03113-6
K.
Kilby The
Village Cooper Shire
1998
ISBN 0 85263 392 0
Oliver
Rackham Woodlands
NN 100 Collins New Naturalist
2006
ISBN 0-00-720243-1
Oliver
Rackham Ancient
Woodland Castlepoint Press
2003
ISBN 1-897604-27-0
Peter
Brandon The Kent and Sussex
Weald Phillimore
2003
ISBN 1 86077 241 2
Freda Derrick Country Craftsmen Chapman & Hall 1945
Peter J. Neville Havins The Forests of England Readers Union 1976
Kay N.
Sanecki Old Garden
Tools Shire
1993
ISBN 0 85263 869 8
Graham
Rose The Traditional Garden
Book Dorling Kindersley
1982
ISBN 0 86318 373 5
Selsin (et
al) Garden
Tools Abbeville Press
1996
ISBN 0 7892 0087 2
Alistair
Morris Antiques from the
Garden Garden Art Press
1999
ISBN 1 870673 33 6
Michael
Partridge Farm Tools through
the Ages Osprey
1973
SBN 85045 081 0
Roy
Brigden Agricultural Hand
Tools Shire
1983
ISBN 0 85263 630 X
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