Title: Antique Woodworking Tools

Subtitle: Their Craftsmanship from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century.

Author: David R. Russell

Photographs by: James Austin

Number of Pages: 528

Dimensions: 340mm x 254mm

Spine: 40mm

The David Russell collection brings together a stunning array of edge and boring tools from Britain, continental Europe and North America and provides a broad survey of hand tool-making from prehistory to today. All the tools are illustrated with James Austin's photographs, and details and marks are shown where appropriate. Special attention is given to planes, and the great British makers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are discussed in depth.

This book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including collectors, industrial archaeologists and social historians.

David Russell was apprenticed as a joiner in Kendal. He has been a collector of woodworking tools for many years.

James Austin read architecture and history of art at Jesus College, Cambridge, and at the Courtauld Institute, London. He took up photography of architecture and works of art. A contributor to many art and architecture books, his clients have included the National Trust, English Heritage, the Crafts Council, the Tate Gallery and the Sainsbury Collection in Norwich.

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