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Cabinetwork and Joinery: Comprising Designs and Details of Construction With 2, 021 Working Drawings and Twelve Coloured Plates
Hasluck, Paul N. · London, Paris, New York, Toronto & Melbourne
- Author
- Hasluck, Paul N.
- Date
- 1907
- Place
- London, Paris, New York, Toronto & Melbourne
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company, Limited
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(6" x 8.75") Ex-Library of Tooting Public Library. 568 pp. Quartert brown leather with smaller corners over burgundy cloth boards with an embossed Tooting Public Library medallion centered to each board. Spine with craquelure, faded gilt lettering, Spine head and foot evidently repaired with glue, small piece lacking from foot. Green floral endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, boards scuffed and rubbed, soiling. Board edges rubbed through, Library bookplate with Discard stamps to front pastedown, remnants of due by slip to gutter edge of first free endpaper (see pic). Discard stamp to reverse of frontispiece, a small circular library stamp to reverse of each plate, all plates accounted for. Small closed tears, old folds, and in some cases a small loss to page fore-edges of title page and next few leaves. Some soiling to pages seen, finger smudges to others, small foxing blooms seen internally. Evidently heavily used, this book also has small closed tears to head and/or foot of pages, small piece lacking at foot corner of pp 135/36 affecting print to one side, hitting illustrations to other. Gutter starting towards rear of book, still secure with professional cloth tape strengthening of gutters. Not a beautiful book, but a practically useful one nonetheless.
- Category
- Fore-Edge Paintings
- Record
- S.I.9346
8vo.(6" x 8.75") Ex-Library of Tooting Public Library. 568 pp. 1907. New York, et al.: Cassell & Company. Quarter brown leather with smaller corners over burgundy cloth boards with an embossed "Tooting Public Library" medallion centered to each board. Spine with craquelure, faded gilt lettering, Spine head and foot evidently repaired with glue, small piece lacking from foot. Green floral endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, boards scuffed and rubbed, soiling. Board edges rubbed through, Library bookplate with Discard stamps to front pastedown, remnants of due by slip to gutter edge of first free endpaper (see pic). Discard stamp to reverse of frontispiece, a small circular library stamp to reverse of each plate, all plates accounted for. Small closed tears, old folds, and in some cases a small loss to page fore-edges of title page and next few leaves. Some soiling to pages seen, finger smudges to others, small foxing blooms seen internally. Evidently heavily used, this book also has small closed tears to head and/or foot of pages, small piece lacking at foot corner of pp 135/36 affecting print to one side, hitting illustrations to other. Gutter starting towards rear of book, still secure with professional cloth tape strengthening of gutters. Not a beautiful book, but a practically useful one nonetheless.
Condition
Good
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