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The Cooper and His Trade
Kenneth Kilby
The Cooper and His Trade.
The first book on how to make barrels written by an actual cooper. The first part of the book deals with materials, tools and techniques. The second part deals with the social history of the coopering trade from the earliest times to the 20th century. TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. The Making of a Cooper
2. The Branches of Coopering
3. Machine Coopering
4. Timber Used in the Coopering Trade
5. Tools
6. The Beginnings
7. The Roman Period
8. The Anglo-Saxon Period
9. The Early Medieval Period
10. The Late Medieval Period
11. The Tudor Period
12. The Stuart Period
13. The 18th Century
14. The 19th Century
15. And the Ending
192 pgs, 6x9, illus,, softcover
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