Christopher Gabriel and the London Tool Trade, by Mark & Jane Rees. 92 Pages. Softbound. Christopher Gabriel a prominent London planemaker of the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century kept a "book" of his transactions throughout his working career. Fortunately for students of the history of tools and toolmaking, this book has survived. Using the Gabriel journals as a principal reference and knitting them together with other documented information about Gabriel and his times, English tool historians Jane and Mark Rees have brough the life and times of Cristopher Gabriel to life for contemporary readers. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and period illustrations. $22.95 (BK-0105)