Free Google Play Blacksmith Books.

A while ago I discovered Google was scanning some good out of copy write literature about Blacksmithing. There are some really good old techniques covered in these books. They also provided a fascinating insight on how they did things a century ago. I just wanted to share what I had found.(Btw you gonna want to adjust the view by clicking the Aa in the top right corner, the pdf starts zoomed in)

Elementary Forge Practice by Robert Henry Harcourt

Forge-practice (elementary)by John Lord Bacon

A cool tool catalog from 1895

Engineers' and General Smiths' Work by Thomas Moore

Forging by American School of Correspondence

American Blacksmith and Motor Shop: Volume 1- This is a journal that has seventeen(if not more) volumes, so I'm linking to a different page that has a "similar reading" bar that links to the rest of them

Steel Working and Tool Dressing by Warren S. Casterlin

Forging by John Jernberg

The Blacksmiths̕ Guide by James Francis Sallows

The Treatment of Steel by Crescent Steel Co

Forging of Iron and Steel: A Text Book for the Use of Students in Colleges, Secondary Schools and the Shop by William Allyn Richards

Modern Shop Practice: A General Reference Work, Volume 4 by American Technical Society

Practical Blacksmithing: A Collection of Articles Contributed at Different Times by Skilled Workmen to the Columns of "The Blacksmith and Wheelwright by Milton Thomas Richardson

Forge-practice and Heat Treatment of Steel by John Lord Bacon

Modern Blacksmithing, Rational Horse Shoeing and Wagon Making: With Rules, Tables, Recipes, Etc by John Gustaf Holmström

Practical Blacksmithing by Milton Thomas Richardson

Now I admit some of them are kinda eh, but they are all worth looking though. If you like them there are even more available that I have not even discovered yet. I hope you guys enjoy them as much as I do.

Edit:found a couple of books that I forgot to add

Hand-forging and Wrought-iron Ornamental Work by Thomas Francis Googerty

American Blacksmithing, Toolsmith's, and Steelworker's Manual: Blacksmith by John Gustaf Holmström