Dust jacket notes: "Here for the first time is a single book that encompasses the entire art of decorative metal work, offering an exhaustive illustrative guide for the interested layman, the amateur, and the master craftsman. In clean, analytic prose, accompanied by 667 photographs and 102 linecuts, Metal Techniques for Craftsmen gives a step-by-step account of precisely how to form or embellish almost any kind of metal object. Supplemented by a complete index, a section on the use and maintenance of hand tools, tables of weights and measures, sources of supplies in the United States and Great Britain, and other reference materials, the text includes full work sequences of objects in the process of creation...." Hardcover, 7 x 10 inches, 509 pages.