The Engineer and Machinist's Assistant: Being a Series of Plans, Sections, and Elevations of Steam Engines, Spinning Machines, Mills for Grinding, Tools, &C. Taken From Machines of Approved Construction, At Present in Operation.

David Scott

Published by Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Blackie and Son, 1847

About this Item

2 volumes. vii, [2], vi-viii, 4, 244p, 123 p. ill., 2 pl., diagrs. 38 cm. and atlas (viii p., 132 pl.) Half bound in contemporary leather. Marbled boards. Marbled page ends. Gilt lettering and tolling on spine. Wear, rubbing and chipping to extremities. Front board on Vol. I detached. Boards on Vol. II starting. Chipping and loss to head/tails of spines. Contemporary owners name on FEP. Vol. II has 132 pl., 10 more than what the contents call for. A great volume of early Industrial Engineering and Mechanization before the later 19th Century Industrialization.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Engineer and Machinist's Assistant: Being a Series of Plans, Sections, and Elevations of Steam Engines, Spinning Machines, Mills for Grinding, Tools, &C. Taken From Machines of Approved Construction, At Present in Operation.
• Publisher: Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Blackie and Son
• Publication Date: 1847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
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