Finding "More editions" and "About this book" on Google Books

The "About this book" Page on Google Books

Archive.org

Archive.org is a sprawling site with different functions, one of which is pulling together scanned books, magazines, catalogs, and other documents. These are organized in many overlapping ways. This makes it difficult to zero in on a category and search it, then move on to another area without covering the same ground. On the other hand, once you locate it, there are several advantages to a magazine or book being on Archive.org:

• A choice of several ways to view and read it
• A very good search feature within the document
• The ability to download the whole magazine or book
• Some items scanned by Google, but not available as Full View, are available on Archive.org

There are 2 categories with tool-related publications, and there are links to them on the sidebar on the right. In July 2017 I started the International Tool Catalog Library, with the link on the sidebar.

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The Hathi Trust

Hathi Trust is "a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world." You may find some titles here that are not available as Full View on Google Books. You may only be able to download and save one page at a time, which can be a drawback or advantage. Google Books will only allow the full document to be downloaded as a pdf.

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Titles Available on Google Books

These are some of the old magazines that cover tools, hardware, and machinery that are available on Google Books and elsewhere.
Link to pdf document with links to these titles:

American Artisan & Hardware Record
American Artisan (snippet view only)
American Blacksmith and Motor Shop
American Carpenter and Builder
American Hay, Flour and Feed Journal
American Machinist
American Paint & Oil Dealer
Architecture and Building
Archive.org Canadian Trade Journals Collection, Topic = Hardware
Automobile Topics
Blacksmith & Wheelwright, The
Board of Trade Journal
Board of Trade Journal (British)
Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, The
British Trade Journal and Export World, The
Builder, The
Building Age
Building News and Engineering Journal , The
Canadian machinery and metalworking
Canadian Magazine of Science and the Industrial Arts, Patent Office Record
Canadian Trade Journals Collection
Carpentry and Building
Cement Era, The
Cement World
Chilton's Motor Age
Clay-worker, The
Commercial Catalogs Collection, Charles A. Strelinger
Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal
Electrical Journal, The
Engineering & Building Record and the Sanitary Engineer
Engineering Magazine
Engineering News and American Contract Journal
Factory and Industrial Management
Forging and Heat Treating, AKA Steel Processing and Conversion
Foundry
Foundry News (1 issue)
Foundry, The
Granite Cutters' Journal, The (at Google Books)
Granite Cutters' Journal, The (at HathiTrust)
Hardware Age
Hardware Dealers' Magazine
Hardware News
Hardware Reporter, The
Hardware Retailer
Hardware World
Implement & Tractor
Industrial Arts & Vocational Education
Industrial Arts Magazine
Industrial Education
Iron Age
Iron Moulders' Journal
Iron Trade Review
Machinery
Machinists Monthly Journal
Mechanical News, The: An Illustrated Journal of Manufacturing, Engineering, Milling and Mining
Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Engineering, Agricultural Machinery, Manufactures and Shipbuilding, The
Mechanics' Magazine, and Journal of the Mechanics' Institute
Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, The
Mechanics Magazine, The
Modern Machinery: Devoted to Machinery and Machine Tools
Municipal Engineering
National Builder, The
Northwestern Miller, The
Plasterer
Plasterer and Cement Finisher
Plumbers Trade Journal, The
Popular Mechanics
Popular Science
Power
Railroad Gazette
Railroad Gazette
Railway Age
Railway Master Mechanic
Reporter, The (monument industry)
Rock Products
Sheet Metal Workers' Journal
Southern Hardware and Implement Journal
Southern Hardware, related titles
Stone
United States Miller and Weather and Crop Journal
Woodcraft: A Journal of Woodworking
Wood-worker, The