James Brindley and The Early Engineers
by SMILES, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1864. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good+. Abridged from 'Lives of the Engineers.' xiii, 320 p. 18 cm. Maps, portrait of Brindley, and other b&w illustrations. Full leather with gold trim, burgundy spine label, marbled endpapers and text block edges. Prize binding states "Godolphin School. Christmas 1866" on front cover. Edges worn, some scuffing to boards. Former owner's label on a front leaf.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102160
- Title
- James Brindley and The Early Engineers
- Author
- SMILES, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1864
- Keywords
- Canals, Great Britain, Engineering, Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Fens Drainage, Sir Hugh Myddelton, Mining, Captain Perry, Duke of Bridgewater, Grand Trunk Canal
- Bookseller catalogs
- Engineering;
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Glossary
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- 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 Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...