Memories of a Sheffield Tool Maker is really two stories. One is of a boy from a working class family who apprenticed to the patternmaking trade during the Depression. He finally worked his way into his own edge tool business and, after a long struggle to establish himself, became an important maker and world-wide distributor of quality carving and turning tools. The other story is that of the Sheffield hand trades in the final years before their demise, when they still had changed little from Victorian times. All this is described by the author in a most interesting, easy to read, anecdotal way. Along the way the reader learns a great deal about growing up in Sheffield during the Depression, and about the tool making trades and how they were conducted. Some light wear to cover. Internally, book in good clean order.