Eric N. Simons, with illustrations by Ingrid Swanson .Hb, A5, 192pp, Publisher: Dennis Dobson, London, 1967

Here is the whole wonderful story of metals, which began when our ancestors emerged from the Stone Age and which is still going on. It is a fascinating theory of discovery and invention, of the sweating toil of miners and smiths and the exquisite delicacy of craftsmen, of melting and smelting, of the arts of war and of peaceful trade, of ingots and pigs and powder metallurgy