Description
8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, 139 pages + glossary and index, illustrated with 31 b+w photographs and 10 drawings, paperback reissue 1987, damp staining to bottom edge, does not run into text but is a blemish, 1st published 1937._x000d_
Walter Rose was a master carpenter and the son and grandson of master carpenters. He writes of village carpentry as it was practised in Buckinghamshire by his family in Victorian times. Their definition of carpentry was wider than ours, for it covered practically all the wood-working except wheelwrights work