The Old Tool Reprint Room

Reprints: E-M

Some of the reprints listed here were re-created from damaged originals. Their covers and title pages may bear no relationship to the actual artifact. Others, especially those reprinted by Ken Roberts, have had additional pages of background information added to them. Conversely, some titles were not reproduced in their entirety in order to keep production costs down. The size of many reprints has no correlation to that of the original document.

Eagle Square Manufacturing Company

Cover title: Steel Carpenters' Squares
Title page: Complete Line of Steel Squares Made by the Eagle Square Manufacturing Co.: What The Scales and Tables Are and How to Use Them
South Shaftsbury, Vermont: Eagle Square Manufacturing Company, no date.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1991.
Reprint is paperbound, 30 pages, 10 x 19.5 cm.
An introductory guide to the Eagle line of steel squares with instructions on how to use the various scales stamped on them.

Edmond — V. A. Edmond & Company

Quebec Steam Plane Factory, V. A. Edmond & Co., 1889
Original title: Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Bench, Moulding & Coopers Planes, etc., etc.: Manufactured by V. A. Edmond & Co.
Quebec: V. A. Edmond & Company, 1889.
Reprinted: Kingston, Ontario: MacLachlan Woodworking Museum, 1995.
Reprint is paperbound, 24 pages, 14 x 22 cm.
Catalog features wooden planes.

Fales Patent Planes
See Smith, Otis A.

Farrington, I. B.

Price List of I. B. Farrington's Ornamental Designs for Scroll Sawing and All Kinds of Scroll Saw Machines
Brooklyn, New York: I. B. Farrington, 1879.
Reprinted for Mid-West Tool Collectors Association by Early Trades and Crafts Society, 1977.
Reprint is paperbound, 16 pages, 14 x 21.5 cm.
Catalog includes, scroll saws, bracket saws, the Companion drill, pin vises, etc. Oddly, also includes a .22 caliber revolver.

Elwell, Edward

Title page: The Mid-Victorian Elwell Catalog of Forged Tools: a Facsimile
Internal title page: Edward Elwell, Wednesbury Forge, Wednesbury, Staffordshire: Illustrated Catalogue
Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England: Edward Elwell, ca. 1865.
Reprinted: Needham Market, Suffolk, England: Roy Arnold, 2000. ISBN 0-90463813-8
Reprint is paperbound, 512 pages, 21 X 30 cm.
Reprint includes historical introduction by Richard Filmer.
Catalog includes billhooks, axes, hatchets, adzes, hoes, shovels, hammers, paring chisels, etc.

Féron et Cie

Á La Forge Royale Fabrique d'Outils Montés a Travailler Le Bois, Féron & Cie, Sucesseurs del Lemainque
Translation: At the Royal Forge, Manufacturer of Finished Tools for Working in Wood, Féron & Cie, Successors to Lemainque
Paris: Feron & Cie, 1927
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association and Early American Industries Association, 1981.
Reprint is paperbound, 102 irregularly numbered pages, 18.5 x 27 cm.
English language translations on facing pages.
Reprint includes three-page introduction by Seth Burchard, a bibliography, cross-section drawings of casement windows and a short appendix that explains caner's tools.
Catalog includes wooden planes, clamps, work benches, frames saws, casement window planes, clamps, caner's benches and tools etc.

Fitz Water Wheel Company

Cover title: Fitz Steel Overshoot Water Wheel: Fitz Water Wheel Co. Hanover, Penna. U.S.A.
Title page: Fitz Steel Overshoot Water Wheels: Manufactured by Fitz Water Wheel Co. Hanover, Pa. U.S.A.
Hanover Pennsylvania: Fitz Water Wheel Company, 1928.
Reprinted: Society for the Preservation of Old Mills, 1987.
Reprint is paperbound, 84 pages, 13 x 20 cm.
Not a catalog in traditional sense as most installations required a different wheel.
Prior to the development of rural electrical grids, overshot wheels, which require a relatively small flow, remained a viable source of power in a number of rural areas.

Folding Sawing Machine Company

Folding Sawing Machine: Fall and Winter, 1896-97
Chicago, Illinois: Folding Saw Machine Company, 1896.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1987.
Reprint is paperbound, 22 pages, 14 x 21 cm.
Reprint omits approximately 20 pages of testimonials that appeared in the original.
The catalog includes the company's sole product—its folding saw machine—and the accessories to go with it.

Foss Patent Planes
See Chapin, Philip E.

Fray — John S. Fray Company

Cover title: Catalogue No. 26: Illustrated Catalogue of Fray's Bit Braces, Breast and Hand Drills, Chucks, Pin Vises, Hollow Handle Tool Sets, etc.
Title page: Catalogue No. 26: Illustrated List of Bit Braces, Breast and Hand Drills, Hollow Handle Tool Sets, etc.
Bridgeport, Connecticut: John S. Fray Company, 1911.
Reprinted: Antique Tools and Trades in Connecticut (ATTIC), 1994.
Reprint is paperbound, 41 pages, 14 x 21.5 cm.
Catalog includes braces, hand drills, breast drills, extension bit holders, hollow handle tool sets, etc.

Fullam, A. J.

Illustration of A.J. Fullam American Stencil Tool Works, ca. 1860.

A. J. Fullam's American Stencil Tool Works
Springfield, Vermont: A. J. Fullam, 1860?
Reprinted: Early American Industries Association, 1978.
Reprint is 1 sheet, 36 x 28 cm.
Distributed to subscribers of the Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association.
Lower left corner: "From photograph."
The source of the original (a broadside? a book?) is unknown.
Distributed to subscribers of the Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association.

Gesswein—F. W. Gesswein Company

F. W. Gesswein Company: 1899
New York : F. W. Gesswein Company, 1899.
Reprinted: Bradley, Illinois: Lindsay Publications, 1994. ISBN 1-55918-135-4
Reprint is paperbound, 504 pages, 11 x 16.5 cm.
Catalog of a New York hardware house that features an extensive line of tools for metal workers. Potential customers for product line include blacksmiths, machinists, silversmiths and jewelers.

Gifford-Wood Company

Ice Harvesting Machinery and Tools: Reprinted General Catalog No. 18, 1919
Hudson, New York: Gifford-Wood Company, ca. 1919.
Reprinted: Leesburg, Virginia: Nation Builder Books, 2003.
Reprint is paperbound, 46 pages, 14 x 21.5 cm.
Contains only the pages on ice harvesting equipment from a Gifford-Wood catalog of 480 pages.
Includes: field saws, hand saws, elevators, conveyers, elevators, basin saws, gigs, ice planers and plows, levelers, grapples, ice chisels, scoops, augers, hooks, tongs, axes and hatchets, awls and chippers, scales, shavers, skids, etc.

Gleave—Joseph Gleave & Son

Catalogue of Tools for Joiners, Cabinet Makers, Coach Makers, Engineers, etc.
Manchester, England: Joseph Gleave & Son, ca. 1913.
Reprinted: [Ispwich], England: Roy Arnold, ca. 1990.
Reprint is paperbound, 56 pages, 12.5 x 18.5 cm.
Catalog contains planes, hammers, axes, braces, spokeshaves, clamps, bench screws, grindstones, mortising machines, treadle tools, boring machines, calipers, micrometers, etc.
Includes portraits of Joseph and J. J. Gleave, pictures of the firm's headquarters (pre- and post 1913), picture of planemaking workshop, picture of the firm's plane stock drying room.

Goodell-Pratt Company

Cover title: Tools: Number 7
Title page: Tools Manufactured by the Goodell-Pratt Company, Greenfield, Mass., U.S.A.: Catalogue No. 7
Greenfield, Massachusetts: Goodell-Pratt Company, 1905.
Reprinted: Lancaster, Massachusetts: Roger K. Smith, 1977.
Reprint is paperbound, 176 pages, 14 x 21.5 cm.
Catalog includes an extensive line of carpenters' and machinists' tools.

Goodnow & Wightman

Price List: Goodnow & Wightman, Importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Tools of All Kinds for Machinists, Pattern-Makers, Carvers, Model-Makers, Amateurs, Cabinet-Makers, Jewelers, etc., and Materials of all Kinds ...
Boston, Massachusetts: Goodnow & Wightman, 1882.
Reprinted: Early Trades and Crafts Society and Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1977.
Reprint is paperbound, 112 pages, 14 x 21 cm.
Catalog of a Boston hardware house featuring an extensive line of carpenters' and machinists' tools

Goss, W. F. M.

Bench Work in Wood: a Course of Study and Practice, Designed for the Use of Schools and Colleges
Boston, Massachusetts: Ginn & Company, 1901.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1997
Reprint is paperbound, 161 pages, 12 x 18 cm.
A manual for students of woodworking divided into three sections: essential facts about common tools for working wood, practical exercises for becoming proficient with the tools, and practical exercises in joinery.

Greenfield Tool Company

1854
Price List of of Joiners' Bench Planes and Moulding Tools: Manufactured by the Greenfield Tool Company, Greenfield, Mass.
Greenfield, Massachusetts: Greenfield Tool Company, 1854.
Reprinted: Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire: Ken Roberts Publishing Company, 1981. ISBN 0-913602-43-4
Reprint is paperbound, 32 pages, 12 x 18.5 cm.
Contain 2-page introduction by Ken Roberts.
An un-illustrated price list featuring 787 varieties of wooden planes.

1872
Illustrated Catalogue and Invoice Price List of Joiners' Bench Planes, Moulding Tools, Handles, Plane Irons, &c.: Manufactured by the Greenfield Tool Company, Greenfield, Mass.
Greenfield, Massachusetts: Greenfield Tool Company, 1872
Reprinted: Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire: Ken Roberts Publishing Company, 1978. ISBN 0-913602-25-6
Reprinted: Mendham, New Jersey: Astragal Press, 1991. ISBN 1-879335-25-5
Reprint is paperbound, 84 pages, 13.5 x 18.5 cm.
Catalog includes wooden planes, rules, gauges, levels, squares, bevels, etc.

Grimshaw, Robert

Cover title: Grimshaw on Saws: Concerning the History, Manufacture, Care and Use of All Types of Saws, Both Hand and Machine Operated
Title page: Grimshaw on Saws: Concerning the Details of Manufacture, Setting, Swaging, Gumming, Filing etc.; Care and Use of Saws; Tables of Gauges; Log Measurements; Lists of Saw Patents, and Other Valuable Information, Profusely Illustrated
Original title: Saws, the History, Development, Classification and Comparison of Saws of All Kinds: with Appendices Concerning the Details of Manufacture, Setting, Swaging, Gumming, Filing etc.; Care and Use of Saws; Tables of Gauges; Log Measurements; Lists of Saw Patents, and Other Valuable Information, Profusely Illustrated
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1880.
Reprinted: Morristown, New Jersey: Astragal Press, 1991. ISBN 0-961808-87-X
Reprint includes 17 pages of advertisements for saws and saw-related companies.
Reprint is paperbound, 159 and 17 pages, 17.5 x 25 cm.
A handbook filled with information on all types of saws and includes in depth information on rake, saw setting, filing, swaging etc.

Gurley — W. & L. E. Gurley

A Manual of American Engineers & Surveyors Instruments, book

Cover title: A Manual of American Engineers & Surveyors Instruments
Title page: A Manual of the Principal Instruments Used in American Engineering and Surveying: Manufactured by W. & L. E. Gurley
21st edition
Troy, New York: W. & L. E. Gurley, 1874.
Reprinted: Mendham, New Jersey: Astragal Press, 1993. ISBN 1-879335-34-4
Reprint is paperbound, 256 pages, 14 x 21.5 cm.
Fully half of the catalog is a handbook for users of the instruments.
Three-page introduction by David C. Garcelon includes a brief history of the company.
A manual for surveyors that shows the adjustment and calibration of Gurley instruments. Contains much general information of interest to surveyors and surveys as a catalog to the Gurley products. Also includes sections on drafting tools, field glasses, levels, rules, etc.

Hall, Henry

The Ice Industry of the United States, with a Brief Sketch of Its History, book

Cover title: The Ice Industry of the United States, with a Brief Sketch of Its History
Title page: The Ice Industry of the United States, with a Brief Sketch of Its History and Estimates of Production in the Different States
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1888.
Reprinted: Early American Industries Association, 1974.
Reprint is paperbound, 43 pages, 21.5 x 27.5.
Extracted from the Tenth Census of the United states, volume 22.
Henry Hall's status report on the state of the American ice industry in 1880 includes illustrations of ice-handling tools and a cutting operation on the Hudson River.

Hammacher, Schlemmer and Company

ca. 1890
Cover title: Piano, Organ and Violin Tools: Catalogue No. 142
Title page: Tools for Piano, Organ and Violin Makers' Tuners' and Regulators': Catalogue No. 142
New York: Hammacher, Schlemmer and Company, ca. 1890.
Reprinted: Bath, New York: Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, ca. 1994.
Reprint is paperbound, 67 pages, 13.5 x 19 cm.
Catalog includes tuning hammers, bow drills, countersinks, bits punches, tuning pin extractors, regulators, reamers, string lifters, tuning forks, tuning wedges, felt knives, string lifters, screwdrivers, nippers, glue pots, small planes, organ tuners, cones, violin planes, etc.

Hammacher, Schlemmer and Company catalog, 1896

1896
Cover title: Tools for All Trades: 1896
Title page: Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Tools for Cabinet-Makers, Sculptors, Painters, Pattern-Makers, Masons, Moulders, Upholsterers, Plasterers, Modelers, Carpenters, Plumbers, Machinists, Wood-Carvers, Gas-Fitters, Jewelers, &c., &c.
New York: Hammacher, Schlemmer and Company, 1896.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association and Early American Industries Association, 1978.
Reprint is paperbound, 403 pages, 13.5 x 21 cm.
That's right, at one time Hammacher Schlemmer was a hardware operation rather than a apparel and gifts operation. A comprehensive line of tools for carpenters, machinists, masons, plasterers, etc.

Hammond — C. Hammond & Son

C. Hammond catalog, 1910, light green cover

C. Hammond & Son Illustrated Catalogue: Manufacturers of Edge Tools and Hammers
Original Toolemera Press cover title: C. Hammond & Son Trade Catalog, 1910: Manufacturers of Edge Tools and Hammers
Ogontz, Pennsylvania: C. Hammond & Son, 1910.
Reprinted: Wilmington, North Carolina: Toolemera Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1530148684
Reprint is paperbound, 73 pages, 15 x 23 cm.
Reissued with a mint-green cover ca. 2016.
Includes shingling, lathing, claw, half, broad, barrel, oyster, boys', rig-builders' and produce hatchets. Also includes hunters' axes and nail, ball pein, riveting, engineers, bookbinding, joiners', farriers', tack, shoe, brick, and bookbinders' hammers.

Hampton—C. & J. Hampton, Ltd.
See Record Works

Harm, Jos.

Album van Schaven en Gereedschappen: Rabots et Outils; Planes and Different Tools
Amsterdam: Jos. Harm, ca. 1900.
Reprinted: Dedham, Massachusetts: Toolemera Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9825329-3-5
In Dutch, French and English.
Includes Dutch, French, English and American tools.
Reprint is paperbound, 24 pages, 18 x 25 cm.
Introduction by Gary Roberts.
Includes planes, benches, bench screws, miter jacks, etc.

Harvey, H. H.

Cover title: H. H. Harvey's Special Illustrated Catalogue for 1896-7: Granite, Marble and Soft Stone Workers' Blacksmiths' and Contractors' Hammers and Tools, Manufactured by Him in Augusta, Maine.
Title page: H. H. Harvey's Illustrated Catalogue and Price List for 1897 of Stone Cutters', Quarrymen's, Miners', Railroad, Grist Mill, Coopers', Blacksmiths' and Slaters' Hammers, Sledges, Tools and Outfits: also, Contractors' Supplies, Handles, Iron, Steel, etc. etc.
Boston: H. H. Harvey, 1896.
Reprinted: Early American Industries Association, 1973.
Reprint is paperbound, in sections of 102 pages and 24 pages, 17.5 x 25 cm.
Second section includes various price lists from 1891.
In addition to blacksmiths' and stonecutters' tools, includes slaters' tools, mattocks, picks, grub hoes, brick hammers, cant hooks, coopers' hammers, etc.

Hasluck, Paul N.

Handyman's Book of Tools, Materials, and Processes Employed in Working Wood, book

Cover title: Wood Working
Title page: The Handyman's Book of Tools, Materials, and Processes Employed in Working Wood
London: Cassell & Company, 1905.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1987.
Reprint is paperbound, 260 pages, 14 x 23 cm.
Reprint consists of the complete tool and "how to use" section plus a chapter on shop furniture
Includes information on woodworking, joinery, workbenches, lumber, nails, screws, glue, layout tools, paring and shaving tools, saws, boring tools, hammers, axes, mallets, adzes, abrading and scraping tools, etc.

Hazen, Edward

Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades: (Hazen's Panorama)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1846.
Reprinted: Albany, New York: Early American Industries Association, 1981.
Reprint is hardbound, 2 volumes, 12 x 19 cm.
A nineteenth century guide to careers for schools and families. Information is on the profession, not the tools. A partial list of trade mentioned: agriculturalist, horticulturist, butcher, ropemaker, shoe and boot maker, saddler and harness-maker, engraver, papermaker and bookbinder carpenter, stone mason, brick-layer, glazier, turner, cabinet maker, chair-maker, carver, cooper, wheelwright, jeweler, silversmith, watch-maker, tin-plate worker, iron-founder, blacksmith, gunsmith, etc.

Higganum Manufacturing Corporation

Higganum farm equipment catalog, ca 1880

Illustrated Catalogue of Higganum Specialties: Cider Mills, Wine Presses, Hay Cutters, Clark's Harrow and Seeder, Corn Shellers, &c. Manufactured by the Higganum Manfg. Corporation, Higganum, Conn., U.S.A.
Higganum, Connecticut: Higganum Manufacturing Corporation, ca. 1880.
Reprinted: Early Trades and Craft Society? 1980?
Reprint is paperbound, 40 pages, 11.5 x 19.5 cm.
A farm equipment catalog.

Hill — James R. Hill & Company

James R. Hill & Company catalog, ca. 1912

Harness Makers' and Dealers' Supply Catalogue
Concord, New Hampshire: James R. Hill & Company, ca. 1912.
Reprinted: West Harwich, Massachusetts: William C. Cavallini, 1974?
Reprint is paperbound, 44 pages, 15 x 21.5 cm.
Reprint consists of the harness tool section from a larger 240 page catalog.
Includes a 4-page guide to prices of antique tools compiled by Cavallini.
Catalog includes such harness tools and leather working tools as round knives, revolving punches, pinking irons, draw gauges, awls, saddler's and cobbler's hammers, round knives, splitters, rein rounders, creasers, channelers, etc. Virtually all the tools were manufactured by C. S. Osborne & Company.
Includes image of the Page Belting Company factory. Page Belting owned James R. Hill & Company.

Hirth & Krause

Hirth & Krause: Dealers in All Kinds of Leather and Findings, Shoe Store Supplies, etc.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Hirth & Krause, 1890.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association and Early American Industries Association, 1980.
Reprint is paperbound, 76 pages, 13.5 x 21 cm.
Catalog features such cobbler's tools as awls, button hooks, lasts, shoe knives, splitting and crimping machines, collices, peg floats, welt knives, hammers, etc. Also includes, leather, calf skins, alligator skins, cut soles, toe caps, etc.

Hoe — R. Hoe & Company

Cover title: R. Hoe & Co., Manufacturers of Warranted Patent Ground Extra Cast Steel Saws
Title page: R. Hoe & Co., Manufacturers of Warranted Patent Ground Extra Cast Steel Saws, Segments and Mandrels, Manufactured from Sanderson Bros. & Co.'s Celebrated Cast Steel: Also, Copying Presses, Printing Manuals, Machinery, etc.
New York: R. Hoe & Company, 1855.
Reprinted: Early Trades and Crafts Society, 1976.
Reprint is paperbound, 32 pages, 11.5 x 19cm.
Catalog includes a price list of circular, mill, mulay, pit, cross cut, felloe, gin and veneer saws (most not illustrated). The last six pages illustrate the firm's copying and seal presses—several of which feature bizarre figurative ornamentation.

Hoole Machine and Engraving Works

Catalogue No. 79: Hoole Machine and Engraving Works
Brooklyn, New York: Hoole Machine and Engraving Works, 1911.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1985.
Reprint is paperbound, 46 pages, 15 x 21.5 cm.
Catalog includes bookbinder's tools, hand and press stamps, creasers, paring knives, hammers, burnishers, polishers, lettering pallets, printing machines, paging and numbering machines, etc.

Howard Watch and Clock company

Illustrated Catalogue of Clocks Manufactured by the Howard Watch and Clock Co.
Boston, Massachusetts: Howard Watch and Clock Company, 1874.
Reprinted: Bristol, Connecticut: Ken Roberts Publishing company, 1972. ISBN 0-9600264-6-0
Reprint is paperbound, 63 pages, 14 x 21.5 cm.
Reprint includes introduction by D. J. Blackwell.
Catalog features astronomical, regulator and watch clocks. Also includes electromagnetic, tower and church clocks.

Howarth — James Howarth & Sons

Cover title: Tool list: JH
Title page: James Howarth & Sons, Broom Spring Tool, Steel & File Works, Bath-Street, Broomhall & Eyre-Street, Sheffield: Steel Converters & Refiners, Manufacturers of Every Description of Cast, Shear, Blister, Minings, Spring & Sheet Steel, Edge Tools, Joiners Tools, Files, Hammers, Saws, Skates, Augers, &c.
4th illustrated edition
Sheffield, England: James Howarth and Sons, 1884.
Reprinted: Ispwich, England: Roy Arnold, 1988.
Reprint is paperbound, iv, 50, 50 pages, 46 pages, 23.5 x 30.5 cm.
Text pages and illustration pages are numbered separately.
Catalog includes edge tools, hammers, tool chests, hand saws, circular saws, wrenches, rules, cutlery, planes, cooper's and shipwright's tools, carving tools, etc.

Hynson Tool & Supply Company

Hynson Tool and Supply Company catalog no. 52

Hynson Tool & Supply Company: Annual Catalogue 52
St. Louis, Missouri: Hynson Tool and Supply, 1903.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1980.
Reprint is paperbound, 79 pages, 13.5 x 21 cm.
Reprint features covers reconstructed from a similar catalog as originals were missing.
Catalog includes such cooper's tools as adzes, side axes, crozes, howells, shaves, knives, leveling planes, chamfering knives, head floats, bung borers, barrel heaters, stave wagons, keg sprinklers, etc.

Iron City Tool Works

Cover title: Iron City Tool Works Catalog No. 28 - 1920
Title page: Iron City Tool Works: Manufacturers of Sledges, Hammers ... Special Tools Made to Blue Prints.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Iron City Tool Works, 1920.
Reprinted with brown cover: Time Tested Tools, 2019. ISBN 978-1097711178
Reprinted with hammerhead cover: Wilmington, North Carolina: Toolemera Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1533278470
Time Tested Tools is paperbound, 100 pages, 20 x 25 cm.
Toolemera Press reprint is paperbound, 98 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm.
Catalog includes sledges, hammers, mauls, blacksmith tools, tongs, grub hoes, railroad track tools, vises, steel bares, wedges, etc.

Jackson & Tyler

Price List of Jackson and Tyler, 1880, blue cover

Price List of Jackson and Tyler, 1880, gray cover

Cover title: Price List of Jackson & Tyler: Tools and Supplies of All Kinds: for Machinists, Blacksmiths, Model Makers, Etc.; Foot Lathes, Drills, etc.
Title Page: Jackson & Tyler, Importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Tools and Supplies of All Kinds: for Machinists, Planing and Saw Mills, Blacksmiths, Pattern Makers, Model Makers, Cabinet Makers, Piano Forte Makers, Carvers, Moulders, Carpenters, Amateurs, &c., &c.
Baltimore, Maryland: Jackson & Tyler, 1880.
Reprinted with gray cover: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1993.
Reprinted with blue cover: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 2007.
Reprints are paperbound, 112 pages, 15 x 22.5 cm.
Catalog for a hardware house selling lathes and accessories from a wide variety of manufacturers, screw plates, taps and dies, post drills, calipers, vises, Stub's files, shears, wrenches, calipers, drill presses, post drills, reamers, pipe fitting tools, etc.

Jackson, S. Robert.

Cover title: The Level You Need: Made by S. Robert Jackson (Successor to Davis & Cook), Manufacturer of Patent Levels, Watertown, N. Y.
Title page: The Level You Need: Manufactured by S. Robert Jackson, Watertown, N. Y.
Watertown, New York: S. Robert Jackson, ca. 1912.
Reprinted: Bath, New York: Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, ca. 1995.
Reprint is paperbound, 12 unnumbered pages, 14 x 17.5 cm.
Catalog features the Davis & Cook line of levels

James Swan Company
See Swan — James Swan Company

Jennings — C. E. Jennings & Company

C. E. Jennings and Company catalog, 1901

C. E. Jennings and Company catalog, 1901, red cover

1901
Cover title: C. E. Jennings & Co., August 1, 1901: Manufacturers of Mechanics Tools and Hardware Specialties
Title page: Price List: C. E. Jennings & Co., Manufacturers of Mechanics Tools and Hardware Specialties
New York: C. E. Jennings & Company, ca. 1913.
Reprinted: Wilmington, North Carolina: Toolemera Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1535133142
Reprint is paperbound, 144 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm.
Re-issued with a red-orange cover.
Catalog includes: chisels, gouges, braces, bits, wood saws, hack saws, tool chests, draw knives, ice cutting machines, etc.

C. E. Jennings and Company catalog, ca. 1913

1913
Cover title: Price List No. 13: C. E. Jennings & Co., Manufacturers of C. E. Jennings' Arrowhead High Grade Tools
Title page: Price List: C. E. Jennings & Co., Manufacturers of Arrowhead High Grade Mechanics' Tools
New York: C. E. Jennings & Company, ca. 1913
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1985.
Reprint is paperbound, 175 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm.
Catalog includes: chisels, gouges, braces, bits, wood saws, hack saws, tool chests, draw knives, take-down squares, ice shaves, ice cutting machines, etc.

Jennings, Russell
See Russell Jennings Manufacturing Company

Keen Kutter Tools
See Simmons Hardware Company

Knight's Dictionary

Spine title: Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary
Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: Being a Description of Tools, Instruments, Machines, Processes, and Engineering; History of Inventions; General Technical Vocabulary; and Digest of Mechanical Appliances in Science and the Arts
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1876.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association and Early American Industries Association, 1979.
Hardbound, 3 volumes, 26 cm.
Reprinted as part of a four volume set (with matching bindings) that includes Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary.
A mechanical dictionary.

Spine title: Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary
Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments, Machines, Processes, and Engineering with Indexical References to Technical Journals (1876-1880)
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton-Mifflin and Company, 1884
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association and Early American Industries Association, 1979.
Hardbound, 960 pages, 26 cm.
Reprinted as part of a four volume set (with matching bindings) that includes Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary.
mechanical dictionaries

L. & I. J. White Company
See White — L. & I. J. White Company

Lang & Jacobs

Lang and Jacobs catalog, pink cover, 1884

Lang and Jacobs catalog, green cover, 1884

Catalogue and Price List of Lang and Jacobs' Headquarters for Coopers Supplies & Cooperage Stock
Boston, Massachusetts: Lang & Jacobs, 1884.
Reprinted: Early Trades and Crafts Society, ca. 1976. (pink cover)
Reprinted: Early Trades and Crafts Society for the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1977. (green cover)
Pink cover reprint is paperbound, 23 pages, 12 x 20 cm.
Green cover reprint is paperbound, 23 pages, 14 x 21.5 cm.
Catalog includes such cooper's tools as adzes, side axes, bung starters, shaves, howells, crozes, etc. Also includes such supplies as rivets and truss hoops, etc.

Lufkin Rule Company

ca. 1920
Cover title: Lufkin Measuring Tapes & Rules: Catalog Number Ten
Title page: Lufkin Rule Company Measuring Tapes and Rules of Every Description: Catalog Number Ten
Saginaw, Michigan: Lufkin Rule Company, ca. 1920.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 2005.
Reprint is paperbound, 11 pages, 15 x 23 cm.
Catalog includes tapes and rules only. Includes a number of items not typically associated with a company known for its precision tools—i.e., tailor's squares, lumber rules, log rules, carpenter's folding rules, etc.

various dates
Lufkin Measuring Instruments: Excerpts From Trade Catalogs, 1888 to 1940
Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire: Ken Roberts Publishing Company, 1983. ISBN 0-913602-54-X
82 pages, 14 x 21.5 cm.
A compilation of various parts of the 1888, 1890/91, 1893, 1896 supplement, 1901 and ca. 1940 catalogs. None of the catalogs is complete.
Includes steel rules & tapes, steel board rules, hickory board and log rules, boot calks and sets, miscellaneous specialties for lumbermen, the "Perfection" Glass Board, etc. Contains no micrometers or gages.

Lukin, James

Turning Lathes: a Guide to Turning, Screw-Cutting, Metal Spinning, Ornamental Turning &c.
Fourth edition
Colchester, England: Britannia Company, 1894.
Reprinted: Mendham, New Jersey: Astragal Press, ca. 1994. ISBN 1-879335-49-2
Reprint is paperbound, 228 and 190 pages in two sections, 15.5 x 23.5 cm.
Volume includes 190 page reprint of the 1896 Britannia Company catalog of engineering tools.
A guide to choosing and using a turning lathe.

Mack & Company
See D. R. Barton & Company

Marbles Company

Marbles Safety Axe Company catalog, 1905

1905
Marbles Specialties for Sportsmen: 1905.
Gladstone, Michigan: Marbles Safety Axe Company, 1905.
Reprinted: Littleton, Colorado: Centennial Press, 1992.
Reprint is paperbound, 56 pages,
Includes hatchets, hunting knives, pedometers, compasses and other outdoor equipment.

Marbles Arms & Mfg. Company catalog, 1933

1932
Marbles Outing Equipment.
Catalog No. 21, 1932-33 edition
Gladstone, Michigan: Marbles Arms & Mfg. Company, 1932.
Reprinted: Philip Whitby, 1992.
Reprint is paperbound, 32 pages,
Includes axes, knives, shooting and other outdoor accessories.

Marples — William Marples & Sons

1909
Cover title: Price List, William Marples & Sons Limited, Sheffield: 1909 Edition
Title page: William Marples & Sons: Manufacturers of Tools for All Trades
Spine: Tools for All Trades
Sheffield, England: William Marples & Sons, 1909.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association and Early American Industries Association, 1979
Reprint is paperbound, 273 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm.
Reprint includes article on brass-framed ebony braces, four-page company history and and 1872 price list for brass-framed braces.
catalogs, extensive line of tools for carpenters, woodworkers, blacksmiths, mechanics, farriers, plasterers, saddlers, tinsmiths, etc.

William Marples and Sons American tools catalog, 1909

1909
Price List of American Tools and Hardware
Sheffield: William Marples & Sons, 1909.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association and Ken Roberts Publishing Company, 1983.
Reprint is paperbound, 60 pages, 21 x 27 cm.
Reprinted from original lacking cover, title page substituted.
Reprint includes one-page company history by Kenneth D. Roberts.
Catalog includes an extensive line of American carpentry and woodworking tools including: tools by the Stanley Rule and Level Company; auger bits by C. E. Jennings, Russell-Jennings and Irwin; tools by the Millers Falls and Goodell-Pratt companies; Peck's squares and compasses; Disston saws; Morrill's saw sets etc.

Marshall-Wells Hardware Company

Marshall-Wells Company catalog, ca. 1910

Zenith Tools and Cutlery
Duluth, Minnesota: Marshall-Wells Hardware Company, ca. 1910.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1987.
Reprint is paperbound, 138 pages, 15 x 22 cm.
Catalog of the Duluth-based hardware house which sold the popular Zenith line of tools. Includes, axes, hatchets, pliers, braces, augers, bits, carving tools, chisels, spoke shaves, planes,, squares, rules, hand saws, files, tool chests, pocket knives, shears, razors, kitchen knives, table knives, shovels, scythes, etc.

Mathieson—Alexander Mathieson & Sons

Alexander Mathieson & Sons catalog variant, 1899

1899
Cover title: Eighth Edition Catalogue, 1899: Alex. Mathieson & Sons, Limited, Saracen Tool Works, Glasgow
Title page: Selections from the Illustrated Price List of Woodworking Tools: Manufactured by Alexr. Mathieson & Sons, Ltd., Glasgow
Eighth edition
Glasgow, Scotland: Alexander Mathieson & Sons, 1899.
Reprinted: Ken Roberts Publishing Company, 1975.
Reprint is paperbound, 205 leaves (i.e., about 100 pages of content), 28 cm.
"While the pages are in the same sequence as in the original catalog, many pages have been deleted."
Includes section illustrating hundreds of molding plane profiles.
Thirty fewer pages of of catalog content than in the 1979 reprint.

Alexander Mathieson & Sons catalog, 1899

1899
Cover title: Illustrated Price List of Woodworking Tools: Manufactured by Alexr. Mathieson & Sons, Ltd., Glasgow
Title page: Eighth Edition Catalogue, 1899: Alex. Mathieson & Sons, Limited, Saracen Tool Works, Glasgow
Eighth edition
Glasgow, Scotland: Alexander Mathieson & Sons, 1899.
Reprinted: Ken Roberts Publishing Company, 1979 ISBN 0-913602-32-9
Reprint is paperbound, 112, 21.5 x 28 cm.
Includes 22-page section illustrating hundreds of molding plane profiles.
Includes introduction to second printing and 30 pages of content not present in 1975 edition.
Includes planes, chisels, gouges, cooper's tools, carving tool, levels, squares, rules, axes, adzes, braces and carriage makers' tools

Maydole—David Maydole Hammer Company

David Maydole Hammer Company catalog, 1917

A Captain of Industry: the Story of David Maydole, Inventor of the Adz-Eye Hammer: to Which is Added a Catalogue of the Principal Varieties of Hammers, Made by the David Maydole Hammer Company
Norwich, New York: David Maydole Hammer Company, 1917.
Reprinted: Mattawan Michigan: Tom Witte Antiques, 1985.
Reprint is paperbound, 68 pages, 10 x 17 cm.
Actually a catalog of the many types of hammers manufactured by the Maydole Hammer Company, with biographical information on David Maydole, a handful of short articles of use to mechanics, and a series handy tables of information useful to the regular hammer user.

Millers Falls Company

1878
Millers Falls Co., Millers Falls, Mass.
New York: Millers Falls Company, 1878.
Reprinted by Philip Whitby, 1992.
Reprint is paperbound, 49 pages, 11 x 18 cm.
Catalogs includes braces, drills, scroll saws, miter boxes, Stratton Brothers levels, vises, etc.

Millers Falls Company catalog, 1887, blue cover

Millers Falls Company catalog, 1887, yellow cover

1887
Catalogue: Millers Falls Company, Hardware Manufacturers, 1887
New York: Millers Falls Company, 1887.
Reprinted with documentary and supplementary data: Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire: Ken Roberts Publishing, 1981. (blue cover) ISBN 0-913602-45-0
Reprinted: Mendham, New Jersey: Astragal Press, 1991. (yellow cover) ISBN 1-879335-27-1
Reprints are paperbound, 72 pages (Roberts), 62 pages (Astragal), 14 x 21.5 cm.
Catalog includes, braces, drills, scroll saws, miter boxes, Stratton Brothers levels, glass cutters, screwdrivers, vises, etc.

1894
Cover title: Millers Falls Co., Hardware Manufacturers: Catalogue No. 24
Title page: Catalogue No. 24: Millers Falls Co., Millers Falls, Mass., and 93 Reade St., New York, U.S.A.
New York : Millers Falls Company, 1894
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 2008.
Reprint is paperbound, 70 pages, 15 x 23 cm.
The catalog features the company's extensive line of carpentry and woodworking tools: braces, hand and breast, drills, augers, scroll saws, hack saws, vises, miter boxes, etc.

1915
Millers Falls Tools: Catalogue No. 35
Millers Falls, Massachusetts: Millers Falls Company, 1915.
Reprinted: Lancaster, Massachusetts : North Village Publishing Company (i.e. Roger K Smith), 1981. (2nd printing 1989). ISBN 0-940458-01-2
Reprint is paperbound, 183 pages, 15.5 x 23 cm.
Catalogs includes the company's extensive line of carpentry and woodworking tools, hack saws, etc.

1938
Cover title: Tools: Catalog 42
Title Page: 70th Anniversary Catalog, No. 42
Greenfield Massachusetts: Millers Falls Company, 1938.
Reprinted: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1999
Reprint is paperbound, 240 pages, 19.5 x 27 cm.
Includes tools branded Goodell-Pratt.
Catalog includes the company's extensive line of carpentry and woodworking tools, hack saws, precision tools, electric tools, etc.

Monhagen Saw Works
See Wheeler, Madden and Bakewell

Morris Patent planes
See Sandusky Tool Company, 1877

Moxon, Joseph.

Mechanick Exercises or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works: Applied to Smithing, Joinery, Carpentry, Turning, Bricklayery ...
3rd edition
London: printed for D. Midwinter, 1703.
Reprinted: Early American Industries Association (EAIA), 1979.
Reprinted: Mendham, New Jersey : Astragal Press, 1998. (blue cover) ISBN 1-879335-85-9
Reprinted: Dedham, Massachusetts: Toolemera Press, 2010. (brown cover) ISBN 978-0-9825329-0-4
EAIA reprint is hardbound, 240 pages, 19.5 x 27 cm. Includes introduction by John S. Kebabian.
Astragal Press reprint is paperbound, 352 pages, 14 x 21 cm.
Toolemera Press reprint is paperbound, 413 pages, 15 x 23 cm.
Reprints by publishers other than those listed here are also available.
Originally written, printed and published between 1683 & 1685, Moxon wrote some of the earliest English-language descriptions of the tools of the various trades and their uses.