A History of the Amateur Woodworking Movement A Decade-by-Decade Narrative of Amateur Woodworking in America From 1900 to 2000 Chapter 1: 1900 and Before An Online Book -- Raymond McInnis -- Amateur Woodworker

 

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Chapter 1: 1900 and Before 1:2. Magazines and newspapers with woodworking content; woodworker's manuals

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Under construction 11-08-07 2. Magazines with woodworking content; woodworker's manuals: Magazines: Both Popular Mechanics and Popular Science [create links later], very successfully launched in the 19th century, contained articles on woodworking, either about tools and/or projects for woodworkers. In London, the  weekly, Work, was published from 1889 to 1893. The editor of Work, the Australian, Paul N Hasluck, was a prolific writer, and today much of what he contributed to amateur woodworking is preserved in the inexpensive paperback book, The Handyman's Book. (Hasluck also edited the monthly, Amateur Mechanics.) Woodworker's Manuals: Click here for a selected and partially annotated list of woodworker's manuals published between 1900 and Before Week by week, brief notices for new and reissued books published in America  are listed in the Bowker periodical, Publishers Weekly. Begun in 1873,  PW also lists new bookstores and bookstores ceasing operation. Today, over a century later, PW is still being published weekly. Source: John Tebbel, History of Book Publishing in the United States, NY, Bowker, 1975, v 2, p 589+  Lippincott, the mainline Philadelphia publisher and imporatnt publisher of woodworker's manuals, established a London office in 1875, "to handle its growing import business". Source: John Tebbel, History of Book Publishing in the United States, NY, Bowker, 1975, v 2, p 284 -- note in nyt]  For statistics on number of woodworker's manuals published decade by decade, see manuals access page  -- more and more frequently, copies of woodworker's manuals are being digitized and uploaded to the Internet by Google Books. I try to keep up with these events, and indicate appropriately the titles of woodworker's manuals that can be read on the Web, but it is a large job, so I ask that readers inform me if they encounter web-based manuals.

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