• 1863 - Industrial Biography: Iron workers and Tool makers by Samuel Smiles

• 1870 - Files and Filemaking by Manufacturer and Builder

• 1873 - Workshop Appliances by C. P. B. Shelley

• 1875 - Hardening Saws and Springs - The Science Record magazine

• 1876 - The Complete Practical Machinist by Joshua Rose

• 1878 - The Pattern Maker's Assistant by Joshua Rose

• 1878 - Manufacture of Files by William T. Nicholson

• 1879 - The Mechanician by Cameron Knight

• 1881 - Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements by Henry T. Brown, 1881

• 1881 - Wood-working Tools by Industrial School Association

• 1882 - Cutting Tools Worked by Hand and Machine by Robert Henry Smith

• 1888 - Practical Blacksmithing by M. T. Richardson

• 1895 - The Complete Practical Machinist by Joshua Rose, M.E.

• 1896 - A Handbook of Art-smithing by Franz Sales Meyer

• 1898 - File Making by Machinery by Modern Machinery magazine

• 1898 - The Practical Tool-maker and Designer by Herbert S. Wilson

• 1899 - The Early Use of Rolls in the Manufacture of Metals by W. F. Durfee

• 1901 - A Patternmakers' Vise by Donald Ladd, Machinery magazine

• 1901 - Farm Blacksmithing by James M. Drew

• 1903 - The Home Mechanic by John Wright

• 1903 - Tools and Machines by Charles Barnard

• 1903 - Points for Buyers and Users of Tool Steel by George A. Alling

• 1903 - Modern Machine Shop Tools by William H. Von Dervoort

• 1905 - Popular Mechanics Shop Notes

• 1906 - Wood Patter-making by Horace Traiton Purfield

• 1907 - Home Mechanics for Amateurs by George M. Hopkins

• 1907 - Mechanical Movements, Powers and Devices by G. H. Hiscox

• 1907 - Toolmakers' Kinks by F. H. Colvin and F. A. Stanley, 1907

• 1908 - Handbook of Small Tools by Erik Oberg

• 1910 - Drop Forging by Machinery's Reference Series

• 1911 - The Heat Treatment of Tool Steel by Henry Brearley

• 1911 - Hand Forging by Thomas F. Googerty

• 1912 - Lathe and Planer Tools by Machinery's Reference Series

• 1912 - American Machinist Grinding Book by Fred H. Colvin and Frank A. Stanley

• 1913 - A Handbook on Japanning by William Brown

• 1913 - Drill Jigs by Machinery's Reference Series

• 1913 - Steel: Its Selection, Annealing, Hardening and Tempering‎ by E. R. Markham

• 1914 - Drilling, Lathe Works, Boring-Mill Work, etc. by Intern. Library of Technology

• 1914 - Steel Working and Tool Dressing by W. S. Casterlin

• 1914 - Forge Practice by John Lord Bacon

• 1915 - Tools, Chucks and Fixtures by Albert A. Dowd

• 1917 - The Starrett Book

• 1919 - Tool making: a practical treatise... by Edward Russell Markham

• 1919 - The American Machinist Shop Note Book by E. V. Suverkrop, 1919

• 1920 - Home Mechanic's Work Shop Companion by Andrew Jackson, Jr.

• 1920 - Elementary Forge Practice by Robert H. Harcourt

• 1921 - Grinding Machines and Their Use by Thos. R. Shaw

• 1966 - Woodworking Tools - 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

• 2005 - Acid Etching on Saws by Simon Barley

• 2005 - A Further Notes on Etching - TATHS

Shop Recipes

• 1751 - Etching or Engraving on Copper-Plates by George Edwards

• 1878 - Wash or Dye recipe for Planes - Carpenter and Builder

• 1883 - Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon

• 1885 - Workshop Receipts by C. G. Warnford Lock

• 1901 - Spon's Mechanics' Own Book

• 1909 - Spon's Workshop Receipts - Vol. 1

• 1909 - Spon's Workshop Receipts - Vol. 2

• 1909 - Spon's Workshop Receipts - Vol. 3

• 1909 - Spon's Workshop Receipts - Vol. 4

• 1913 - A Handbook on Japanning by William N. Brown