Agricultural Hand Tools (Shire Album): 100 (Shire Library) - Softcover

Brigden, Roy

9780852636305: Agricultural Hand Tools (Shire Album): 100 (Shire Library)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 085263630X ISBN 13: 9780852636305

Publisher: Shire Publications, 1983

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A book from the Shire Album Series - Agricultural Hand Tools.

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Synopsis:

A range of tools, once familiar to the farmworker, gradually became obsolete during the twentieth century. This album describes these tools and the farming processes they performed in the period before the general dominance of the tractor and combine harvester.

About the Author:

Roy Brigden is Keeper of the Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading. The extensive collection there of hand tools and farm equipment, together with a wealth of documentary and illustrative material, have prompted this survey.

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