Author: Quinn, Tom and Felix, Paul,
Title: LAST OF THE LINE - Traditional British Craftsmen.
Description: David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1999, 1st edn., 160pp, coloured photo pictorial double title, numerous coloured photo ills. in text, coloured endpapers, large landscape format (9.5 x 10.5 inches approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, a pictorial record of some thirty-seven manual skills that are still practised today, some on a very limited scale, including bark tanner, bow maker, coppicer, cheese maker, kipper smoker, peat cutter, charcoal burner, flint knapper, watermiller, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: british history craftsmen tanner cheese maker coppicer kipper smoker fisherman peat cutter watermiller charcoal burner freeminer flint knapper reed cutter


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