J P Clabrough: Birmingham Gunmaker
Author:
Shelton Lawrence P
Year:
2013
Edition:
1st
Publisher:
Far West Publishers
City of Publication:
Sacramento
Summary:
256 pages, 4o., over 190 illus in colour and b/w from photographs, line drawings, early adverts etc., signed on the title page by Lawrence Shelton. A fine copy in the publishers pictorial binding. The book follows the life of a successful English gunmaker and businessman John Clabrough who was born in Yorkshire, England. He learned the gunsmith trade from his father, travelled to the United States in 1857, worked as a gunsmith and opened his own shop in San Francisco. In 1873 he returned to England to produce guns for the American market. The book contains some excellent close-up photographs of the guns.
Ref:
23598
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