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A Museum of Early American Tools
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This delightful evocation of simpler times and the tools that built America has always held a special place in the hearts of lovers of Americana and Yankee ingenuity. Now available in a handsome hardcover gift edition, this engaging, informative book features 184 of the author's inimitable drawings.

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A wonderfully illustrated peek into woodworking of old
 
Review Date: July 23, 1998
Reviewer: ,
This book is loaded with great illustrations of the tools and uses of woodworkers and farmers of old. A fast read and a valuable resourse tool you will be using for years to come.
Great
 
Review Date: June 3, 2006
Reviewer: Jacob,
I would have to say this is one of my best books! The pen and ink drawings a wonderful. So well writen with so much information. I just finished reading this again and feel like going and useing some of the tools in there that i own! I love working with wood and other materials in the American way. Some of the tecniques he dessribes are so ture an i use the all the time! If u love America and/or hand tools, you must own this book.
Great Art
 
Review Date: January 16, 2007
Reviewer: Dennis Ott, Sinks Grove, WV USA
Eric Sloane doing what he does best. The illustrations are superb as usual and so are the descriptions of how the tools were used. This book is bound to make you think differently the next time you are at a yard sale or fleamarket standing in front of a bunch of old rusty tools.
Illustrated handbook of American Hand Tools
 
Review Date: March 2, 2007
Reviewer: J. Tappmeyer, Missouri, United States
Illustrated handbook to pre-industrial American hand tools and how they were used. Emphasis on implements used on the frontier for clearing, woodworking and farming. Period of interest is colonial to civil war. Takes you from basic tools for working timber to the tools of more specialized trades,carpentry tools, coopers tools, and implements for farm jobs. Quit a few sections identifying specialized tools and their use.

If you know nothing about pre-industrial tools and were interested in knowing something about them for historical purposes or for basic identification.
An Historical lassic
 
Review Date: February 27, 2008
Reviewer: M. Dearing, Orlando, FL United States
I just finised reading the 1976 edition of A Museum Of Early American Tools. I love this book! It is obvious that Mr. Sloane had both a deep understanding and a heartfelt reverence for our American history, the implements that were such an integral part of it, and the ingenious craftsmen who designed and fabricated them. Our early history is indeed told most eloquently by the tools our ancestors devised. And who better to lead us through that story than Eric Sloane. I'm adding more of his books to my wish list.
Mike Dearing

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