Excerpt from The Cutlery Trades: An Historical Essay in the Economics of Small-Scale Production The pen drawings with which the book is illustrated afford a vivid pictorial record Of the Older methods Of cutlery manufacture. They are the work Of Mr. Arthur Lismer, and are, with few exceptions, faithful interpretations of my own photographs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.