THE COOPER AND HIS TRADE
The is the first book on coopering by a cooper. Mr Kilby comes from a family of coopers and was apprenticed to the trade, served in it, and finally abandoned it for teaching. The book is partly autobiographical and deals with with materials, tools, and techniques and discusses the roles of the white cooper, the dry cooper, and the various kinds of wet cooper. The 2nd section deals with the social history of the trade from the earliest times to the 20th century. Originally published in London. in 1971.

Contents

1 The Making Of A Cooper
2 The Branches Of Coopering
3 Machine Coopering
4 Timber Used In The Coopering Trade
5 Tools
6 The Beginnings
7 The Roman Period
8 The Anglo-Saxon Period
9 The Early Medieval Period
10 The Late Medieval Period
11 The Tudor Period
12 The Stuart Period
13 The Eighteenth Century
14 The Nineteenth Century
15 And The Ending