THE SEASONING AND PRESERVATION OF TIMBER: Being a Treatise on the Various Methods Employed for Drying, and Preserving Timber Against Decay (with a chapter on the origin and spread of dry rot, and the best methods to be adopted for its eradication) 1st edition hardback

Published by Chapman and Hall in 1924, this is the first hardback printing of Ernest G Blake's The Seasoning and Preservation of Timber: Being a Treatise on the Various Methods Employed for Drying and Preserving Timber Against Decay (with a chapter on the origin and spread of dry rot, and the best methods to be adopted for its eradication). Green cloth binding, gilt lettering, 132 pages, superb b/w plates and illustrations, the book is in very good condition with some moderate shelf wear to the cloth and some dusty spotting along the top page edges.