It seems I got a bargain with this book -- there are three on Amazon at $55, $65, and $75. I paid $12. It covers tools from the Stone Age on. It has a lot of illustrations -- drawings. Published in 1933. Right behind the title page, it has the following dedication, which seems very appropriate to Tool Talk:
"This book was made for you, Tom and Hilton and Robert, that you might know something of the tools with which the world around you has been built and how these tools came to be. Then, too, I would like you to know about the carpenters, how they have lived and worked, built bridges and boats and buildings down through the centuries. And while carpenters' work is more for boys than for girls, I would like Jill and Barbara and Phylis-Ann to read the book too, for the tools and the people who work with them are so important to us all our lives that I think we ought to know as much about them as we can."
I was very surprised to see a miter square almost identical to one posted here by Bob a few months back -- actually, there are two that are similar. One is Egyptian, and another is Roman. Quite a bit older than the patented square Bob has.
