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Tunis, with his painstaking attention to authentic detail and his vast knowledge, could present such a complete treasury of the way things were done before machines obliterated this phase of early American life.

Trade Review
Of great interest to historians of technology including blacksmiths... Tunis's work is a useful overview of tools and processes in the hand-craft era and the beginning of the industrial revolution... With their well-balanced blend of text and drawings they provide an interesting sampling of colonial craft practices, as well as a delightful 'flavor of the times.' We [blacksmiths] should all become familiar with this widely read book. -- John Austen The Newsletter of the Blacksmiths' Guild of the Potomac

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. New World, New Ways
Chapter 2. Country Work
Chapter 3. Town Shops
Chapter 4. Bespoke Work
Chapter 5. Group Work
Chapter 6. Manufactories

Colonial Craftsmen And the Beginnings of American

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 14/09/1999
      ISBN13: 9780801862281, 978-0801862281
      ISBN10: 0801862280
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tunis, with his painstaking attention to authentic detail and his vast knowledge, could present such a complete treasury of the way things were done before machines obliterated this phase of early American life.

      Trade Review
      Of great interest to historians of technology including blacksmiths... Tunis's work is a useful overview of tools and processes in the hand-craft era and the beginning of the industrial revolution... With their well-balanced blend of text and drawings they provide an interesting sampling of colonial craft practices, as well as a delightful 'flavor of the times.' We [blacksmiths] should all become familiar with this widely read book. -- John Austen The Newsletter of the Blacksmiths' Guild of the Potomac

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Acknowledgments
      Chapter 1. New World, New Ways
      Chapter 2. Country Work
      Chapter 3. Town Shops
      Chapter 4. Bespoke Work
      Chapter 5. Group Work
      Chapter 6. Manufactories

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