The best guide to tools a householder or homesteader might need to know and use. There are 1500 drawings of common items as well as forgotten tools. Descriptions include the generic names the tools have been known by, usage, sizes, and care of the tool. The section on brushes alone is worth the price of the book. Even though I trained as an apprentice house painter, not until Jackson and Day’s book did I hear of a washing down brush, a mottler, a flogger, a softener, a pencil overgainer, or a fitch.
