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The Gun by William Greener 1835
240 pages, about 8" X 6", glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice photocopy. Printed on high quality 24# 97 bright acid free paper. Illustrations. This is not the later "The Gun" book by the Greener company (and reprinted frequently thereafter) that was first published in 1881. This was W.W. Greener's first book and deals with small arms.
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Contents Include:
The Gun by William Greener 1835
Newcastle , England
A treatise on the various descriptions of Small Firearms
Features chapters on:
Iron in use for Making Gun Barrels
Wire Twist and Damascus Iron
Mr. Wiswould's Iron
Stub Damascus Iron
Charcoal Iron
Threeprenny Skelp Iron
Twopenny or Wednesbury Skelp
Sham-Damn skelp
Silver Steel
Swaff Iron Forging
Barrel Welding
Boring, Grinding, and Turning Gun Barrels
The Proof of Gun Barrels
Putting Double Barrels together
Patent Breeches
The Flint and Detonating Systems
False Breeching and Jointing Locks
Locks
Stocking and screwing together
The Staining of Barrels
The Shooting of Barrels
Gunpowder
Shot
Wadding
Patent Cartridges
Copper Caps
Guns and Shooting
The Rifle
The Musket and Other Military Arms
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