The Playbook of Metals : Including : Personal Narratives of visits to Coal, Lead, Copper, and Tin Mines : With : a Large Number of Interesting Experiments Relating to Alchemy and the Chemistry of the Fifty Metallic Elements
by Pepper, John Henry
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About This Item
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1860. Hardcover. 12mo (7.25" x 5"), gilt black leather prize-binding. a.e.g. Frontis., 504 pp. with 300 b&w illus. Bookplate on front paste-down reading "Presented by the Council of King's College London to C.C. Hodges (Rem. 1) as a Prize for Mathematics Lent Term 1885." CONDITION: Very good, minor wear to extremities and slight loss of cover along spine edges, but contents crisp and clean.
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- James Arsenault & Company (US)
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- 8337
- Title
- The Playbook of Metals : Including : Personal Narratives of visits to Coal, Lead, Copper, and Tin Mines : With : a Large Number of Interesting Experiments Relating to Alchemy and the Chemistry of the Fifty Metallic Elements
- Author
- Pepper, John Henry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: George Routledge and Sons, 1860
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....