Edward Elwell: Catalogue of Forged Iron Tools, by Edward Elwell. 512 Pages. Softbound. This superb new reprint of a ca. 1860's catalogue of forged iron items by Edward Elwell's Wednesbury Forge of Staffordshire, England, is the finest tool catalogue to be reprinted in many years. Filled with superior quality engravings of every manner of axe, billhook, machete, hammer, anvil, etc., etc. this book clearly documents, in a single volume, the state of the art of toolmaking as it existed in the middle of the Nineteenth Century. A well written and thorough introduction by Richard Filmer recounts the history of the Ellwell enterprise. An essential new reference for the student of tools. UNAVAILABLE (BK-0541)
