London: Brassey's, 1990. 76, wraps, notes. More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1971. First Edition. 411, illus., appendices, glossary, reading list, index, library stamps on fore-edge, tape stains inside rear board and flyleaf. More

Arlington, VA: Semiconductor Tech. Council, 1995. Approx. 100, 3-ring binder with 10 tabs, illus., diagrams. More

Philadelphia: J. B. Shannon, circa 1985. This appears to be an undated faithfully produced facsimile reprint issued ca. 1985--according to on-line bibliographic references. Wraps. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. Stapled on left side. [2], 107, [1] pages, including covers. Illustrations. Cover has wear and soiling. Cover separated from bottom staple. J. B. Shannon was a noted tool manufacturer in the 19th century. Some of their catalogues are now in museum and rare book collections. Along with stone, wood is among mankind's oldest building materials. The ability to shape it into tools, shelter, and weapons improved with technological advances from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. Some of the oldest archaeological evidence of carpentry are water well casings. These include an oak and hazel structure dating from 5256 BC, found in Ostrov, Czech Republic, and one built using split oak timbers with mortise and tenon and notched corners excavated in eastern Germany, dating from about 7,000 years ago in the early Neolithic period. Relatively little history of carpentry was preserved before written language. Knowledge and skills were simply passed down over the generations. Even the advent of cave painting and writing recorded little. The oldest surviving complete architectural text is Vitruvius' ten books collectively titled De architectura, which discuss some carpentry. It was only with the invention of the printing press in the 15th century that this began to change, albeit slowly, with builders finally beginning to regularly publish guides and pattern books in the 18th and 19th centuries. More

Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, c1992. Wraps. 29 cm, 848 pages. Wraps, illustrations (some color), Name on front cover & front flyleaf, covers curling a bit at the edges. More

London: Oxford University Press, 1958. 728 + plates, v.4 only of the 5-vol. set, illus., color frontis illus., maps, figures, references, bibliography, index, usual library markings. More

New York: BasicBooks, c1995. First Printing. 22 cm, 185, publisher's ephemera laid in. More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983. 24 cm, 215, wraps, illus. More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984. 24 cm, 170, wraps, illus. More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1985. 24 cm, 178, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers, pencil erasure on first page. More

Arlington, VA: Sperry Corporation, 1986. 26, Vol. I only, spiralbound, illus., diagrams, list of terms. More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981. First Printing. 209, illus., appendices, bibliography, index, DJ soiled and edges worn: small tears, small pieces missing, sm rough spot front DJ. More