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Engines of the Human Body; Being the Substance of Christmas Lectures Given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Christmas 1916-1917

Engines of the Human Body; Being the Substance of Christmas Lectures Given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Christmas 1916-1917

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Engines of the Human Body; Being the Substance of Christmas Lectures Given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Christmas 1916-1917

by Sir Arthur Keith

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Williams & Norgate, 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1925. Second Edition, Revised. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white plate detached from binding and tucked into back of book. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly forward leaning. Mild tanning to spine and edges.

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Title
Engines of the Human Body; Being the Substance of Christmas Lectures Given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Christmas 1916-1917
Author
Sir Arthur Keith
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Acceptable
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Publisher
Williams & Norgate
Date Published
1925

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Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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.
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....
Plate
Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Foxed
Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
Acceptable
A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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