Knots, Splices and Rope Work: A Practical Treatise

Knots, Splices and Rope Work, by professor, author, explorer, and inventor A. Hyatt Verrill and published in 1919, is a concise, illustrated compendium of information about the nature of rope and its uses. There are chapters on the make and construction of rope, knots, bends, hitches, nooses, grommets, lashings, splices and more.