The History of the Fish Hook in America: An Illustrated Overview of the Origins, Development, and Manufacture of the American Fish Hook - Volume 1: From Forge to Machine

The first of a three-volume series on the history of the American fish hook traces the origins of the hook industry from its humble beginnings in Brooklyn to its position as a major competitor both in foreign and domestic markets by 1900. The product of more than ten years of research, this work covers - much of it for the first time ever in print - the detailed history of the manufacturers and wholesalers who provided Americans with billions of hooks during this era. Fully illustrated with over 200 images and documented with hundreds of footnotes, including many of rare and collectable fish hooks, the first volume is 352 pages and should appeal to fishermen, collectors, and history buffs alike. Chapter 1: A Short History of the Fish Hook in America, Part I; Chapter 2: How Fish Hooks Were Made: Nineteenth Century Hook Factories; Chapter 3: The "Regrettable Jumble": Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Samuel Allcock, and the Great Hook Scale Debate; Chapter 4: To Beard or Not to Beard: The Origins of the Barbless Hook; Chapter 5: The Tarpon Hook and the Origins of Saltwater Fishing in America; Chapter 6: The Hook of Job: Job Johnson, Pioneer of the American Fish Hook; Chapter 7: John Warrin: America's Multinational Corporate Hook Maker; Chapter 8: John W. Court: Brooklyn's Forgotten Hook Man; Chapter 9: America's Hookmaking Dynasty, or How the Bate Family Gave Birth to Dry Fly Fishing in America; Chapter 10: Dr. Crosby and the Hook Machine: The Origins of the American Needle & Fish Hook Co.; Chapter 11: Untying the Pflueger Fish Hook: The Convoluted History of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company Hook Trade; Chapter 12: In Search of George Griswold: On the Trail of America's First Fishing Tackle Inventor of the Patent Era; Chapter 13: Job Johnson, Pioneer of the Spring Snap Hook; Chapter 14: The Sockdolager Saga—the Origins and Development of the American Spring Hook; Chapter 15: The Science of Fish Hooks—Scientific American and the American Fish Hook Inventor.