Author: CONROY, TOM.
Title: Bookbinders' Finishing Tool Makers 1780-1965.
Description: . New Castle & Nottingham, 2002. xlii,300pp. Illus. in b/w. Indexes. Bibliography. Cloth.*This unique directory lists hundreds of toolcutters and their firms who worked from 1780 to 1965. With brief biographies of each craftman or firm the author illustrates many of their original trade marks and advertisements. He also lists the dates when they were active. There are opening essays on What Finishing Tools Are and How they were Used; How Finishing Tools Are Made; Tools of the Makers and Toolmakers' Tools etc. Using trade journals and other methods , this work is an excellent reference to provide a means for dating tools and thus bindings. The definite book on bookbinders' finishing tools..

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