Agricultural Hand Tools

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Agricultural Hand Tools
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Roy Brigden
SeriesShire Library
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:32
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 149
Category/GenreAgricultural engineering and machinery
ISBN/Barcode 9780852636305
ClassificationsDewey:631.309
Audience
General
Illustrations 53 b/w

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Shire Publications
Publication Date 1 April 1983
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.