Specification Record of the American Specification Institute, Volume Four, 1931 Hardcover - 1931

Chicago, IL: Specification Record, 1931. Hardcover. Good+/None. 1931 Dark brown cloth boards with blind embossed decorative border and titling on front and spine. Gold cover plate and title in gilt on front cover. Rubbed at extremities and corners bumped. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. Quarto. No indication of ex-library. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: A Reference Work, comprising Bulletins, Specifications, Outlines of Specifications and Documents of the American Specification Institute and other co-related data. See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W technical drawings and tables. 'In the development of the work of The American Specification Institute, the publication of the Specification Record has been undertaken not only to give permancence to many of the results achieved since its organization but also to form a basis for an encyclopedia of specifications.... In [the book] on page 19, there is focused the fundamental theories of a specification. This bulletin is termed the for specifications, is the first known measure of these important documents and in use during the past nine years has given ample proof of its value.... On page 11 there will be found in which there appears some of the philosophy of specification writing. The user of the Specification Record will find the search for informative data simplified to the extent that all information on a particular subject, with very few exceptions, appears within one general subdivision.' (-from the Preface). Includes list of publications of the American Society for Testing Materials, list of bulletins of the American Specification Institute, general index, and index to manufacturers' specifications and informative data.