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Amateur mechanics: an illustrated monthly magazine. Vol I
by Hasluck, Paul N
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Trubner & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in brown decorated cloth with gilt titles, cloth has rubbing at corners and spine ends, name on front pastedown and half title. 388 pages, illustrations in the text plus 46 plates, index. 12 issues for 1883 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61837
- Title
- Amateur mechanics: an illustrated monthly magazine. Vol I
- Author
- Hasluck, Paul N
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Trubner & Co.
- Date Published
- 1883
- Keywords
- Metalwork, Blacksmithing, Turning, Laquering
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crafts / Metalwork;
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
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Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
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- Half Title
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- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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