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Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1876
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. No date (1876). Presumed first edition. Hardcover in emerald green cloth letterd in black and gilt. Patterned endpapers. Preface dated July, 1876. 335 pp. "Copiously Illustrated" with drawings. a tight, very good copy, minor wear to the extremities' spotting to the rear cover. Internally clean and bright. The follow up volume to Lukin's enormously popular and useful "The Young Mechanic" (1874). This volumes details the making of iron, rolling, tilting, wire-drawing, brass tubes, mechanical arrangements, application of mechanical arrangement, the manufacture of items such as steel pens, pins, hair-pins, sheet metal goods, screws, bolts and nuts, cutting and shaping wood, paper-making, glass making, scientific machines.
Published by Kegan Paul Trench Trübner & Co London, 1898
Seller: J. R. Young, Birmingham, United Kingdom
7½"x5" (19x12.5cm). pp(6)346; with 72 in-text figures, as well as decorated initial capitals and head- & tailpieces. Original blue cloth; backstrip and front cover blind-titled against decorative gilt backgrounds between rules and modest decorations in black and orange. No dust jacket. Edges of text-block a little toned; top edge also a little dust-marked, and fore-edge lightly & sparsely spotted. Endpapers lightly toned; front flyleaf also with light upper corner crease. Title-page and page 346 a little toned towards edges. Binding holding firmly and of very pleasing appearance, contents clean and tight. VERY GOOD+ copy.