Miscellany

1000 Dumbbell, Indian Club and Steel Bar Exercises.

Written by F.J. Harvey I have very little information about the author of this book: 1000 Dumbbell, Indian Club and Steel Bar Exercises.  I came across this whilst hunting for books of interest to me online. The published date though scribbled out appears to be 1903. This is supported by the dates in the advertisement on the inside cover (for Health and Strength Aug 1902), and the advertisement in the back for shot loaded barbells (suggesting it predates such equipment as the Pullum plate loaded barbell which was patented in 1921)

How to Obtain Strength (The Nutshell Series) 

Penned by J.H Harrison and Ridge King.  This book is diffcult to date though the recommendation of using light weights to develop strength would suggest to me late 1890's to early 1900's.  It does have a section on heavy weight lifting including descriptions of the Dumbbell snatch, dumbbell swing, Bent press (though it doesn't call it that) with both barbell and Dumbbell and the turkish get up (again, doesn't call it that) with a barbell.