Stories of Invention
by Hale, Edward E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1887. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good +. Told by Inventors and their Friends. 8vo, cloth boards with vignette of Palissy the Potter on front in black and gilt and one of the Rocket steam engine in gilt on spine. 301pp with 19 illustrations including frontis. Decorative endpapers. Some shelfwear, generally very good and clean inside, overall good. A mix of fact and fiction being a history of technology from Archimedes to Henry Bessemer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bird's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2108
- Title
- Stories of Invention
- Author
- Hale, Edward E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- inventor, industrial revolution, scientists, technology, inventions, archimedes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Historical & Antiquity; Science & Technology;
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.