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Published in 1882 by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.

Reface

This book does not pretend to be a descriptive treatise on tools.  It does not enumerate all the cutting tools in use, nor does it explain all the details of construction of the machines referred to in it.  To do so, indeed, would require very much larger space then is at out disposal, and, for other reasons, would be beyond the aim of the book.  Such a descriptive treatise unfortunately does not at present exist in the English language.

The aim of this work is educational, and at the same time it is intended as an attempt, at least, to begin the elevation of the art of tool-making from its present entirely empirical to more scientific position.

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