Saddlery And Harness Making

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Saddlery and Harness Making. Paul N. Hasluck (Ed.). J.A. Allen and Company Ltd., London. 1962. First edition reprint (originally published in 1904 by Cassell and Co., Ltd.). 160pp. Hardback, with dust jacket, in Good condition (the book itself, brown covers with gilded titling on the front and the spine, is in Very Good condition ; the jacket is complete but with slight wear along the edges and minor creases ; the inside of the jacket is lightly tanned and slightly discoloured in places ; overall, though clean and complete). Originally two separate manuals, now in one volume, with a foreword by a former Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Saddlers, who had been in the trade himself since before the First World War. With many b/w line drawings of harnesses, strap-making, saddles, tools and other related aspects of the trades accompanying the text A very interesting account, originally published in 1904, of two trades once very important in the days when horses and horse transport

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