📚 Blacksmithing

Fire and anvil: the trade and its techniques, and the tools almost every other trade depended on.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject blacksmithing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Practical Blacksmithing, Part One (Volumes 1 and 2)	M. T. Richardson	1888	9
	Machine Blacksmithing	James Cran	1909	9
	Practical Blacksmithing	M. T. Richardson	1889	7
	The art of blacksmithing	Alex W. Bealer	1969	6
	Edge of the anvil	Jack Andrews	1977	6
	Blacksmithing Primer	Randy McDaniel	1998	6
	Minaraikō kyōkasho	Japan. Tetsudōshō. Kōsakukyoku	1935	5
	The Blacksmith	Aldren Auld Watson	1968	5
	Professional smithing	Donald Streeter	1980	5
	Steel working and tool dressing	Warren S. Casterlin	1914	4
	How to use tact and skill in handling people	Paul P. Parker	1959	4
	Blackwork	Mary Gostelow	1976	4
	Farm Blacksmithing	J. M. Drew	2000	4
	The Value of Science in the Smithy and Forge	William Hutton Cathcart	1916	3
	Decorative and sculptural ironwork	Dona Z. Meilach	1977	3
	Southwestern colonial ironwork	Marc Simmons	1980	3
	The Mande blacksmiths	Patrick R. McNaughton	1988	3
	The blacksmithing instructors' guide	David Harries	1993	3
	The Blacksmith (Colonial People)	Bobbie Kalman	1997	3
	Country Blacksmith	David L. McDougall	2013	3
	Farm Blacksmithing	James M. Drew	1904	2
	Farm blacksmithing	James M. Drew	1910	2
	Farm blacksmithing	John Frank Friese	1921	2
	Der germanische Schmied und sein Werkzeug	Horst Ohlhaver	1939	2
	Bosom bonfires	Clarence Francis Miles	1939	2
	The village blacksmith	Ronald Webber	1971	2
	The village blacksmith	Barbara B. Shaw	1972	2
	The blacksmiths	Leonard Everett Fisher	1976	2
	The village blacksmith	Jocelyn Bailey	1977	2
	Practical projects for the blacksmith	Ted Tucker	1980	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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