HARDBACK * Edition: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1978* Publisher: Batsford* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, Gilt title to spine. Bumps to base of spine and showing slight lean. VG+* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of £8.50, some minor shelf wear to top edge, in protective library jacket. VG+* Contents condition: Ex-Library with the usual stamps and labels to prelims, top and bottom edges and final index page, clean, crisp and bright. No other inscriptions or annotations. Back hinge strengthened with sellotape between last page and end paper. GD+* Illustrations: 16pp. Colour photos most other pages have B/W photos or line drawings.* Pages: 390 pp. text. xlii pp. Appendices & Index.* Heavy includes a small postage supplement within the asking price.* Covers 135 different crafts from airbrush and art protis, through pottery and puppet making to weaving, wax and woodcuts. Concentrates on the techniques and principles which form the basis of each craft, then goes on to put theory into practice with a selection of practical projects. A nice clean copy of a valuable reference work for the ?crafty? person.

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Seller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Seller's Inventory #: 4778
Title: The Batsford encyclopaedia of crafts
Author: Andrew, H. E. Laye
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - GD+/VG
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0713405635
ISBN 13: 9780713405637
Publisher: B. T. Batsford
Place of Publication: London 431
Date Published: 1978-01-01
Keywords: Handicraft -- Encyclopedias
Size: ,[16]p. of plates : ill(some col

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