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Industrial Curiosities: Glances Here and There in the World of Labour
by Japp, Alexander Hay
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: Marshall Japp and Company, 1880. Rare illustrated original 8vo size dark green clothbound hardcover with bright gilt titles on spine and cover and a bright gilt illustration on front cover; 372 pages with black and white illustrations. White background with tan flowers and leaves patterned endpapers. Contents include: Leather Wool Wool Sorters' Disease Beds A Piece of Porcelain Needles The Sewing Machine At Chatham In A Hop Garden India Rubbers Perfumes Gold and Silver Seals and Sealskins Photographs Clocks and Watches Locks and Safes The Post Office Small areas of discoloration to endpapers where pastedowns where reinforced underneath the endpapers at the time of production; penciled price on half title page; there is a small amount of dark foxing to outside pages and more on outside pages at bottom of book and frontispiece and title page. At pages 112/113 there is a split to the webbing and some discoloration at that interior seam which looks like adhesive residue and which also appears in other areas of the book; page 113 has a discoloration stain which does not obscure text. Two different small sections of pages 135-138 and 183-186 are detached and laid in. The bottom stitch for pages 194 -206 is broken (but two other stitches hold those pages to the binding.) Edgewear, bumped heel of spine, top of spine is bumped and chipped and there is a 1.25 inch tear to the top of the spine seam. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001468
- Title
- Industrial Curiosities: Glances Here and There in the World of Labour
- Author
- Japp, Alexander Hay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Marshall Japp and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- antiquarian; industry; Manufacturing;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Manufacturing; Business;
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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