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Trinders' Fine Tools, Clare, Sudbury, United Kingdom
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xix, 592 pages, [12] pages of advertisements, 22 full-page plates, upwards of 750 woodcuts, drawn on wood by the author. Volume 4 only from the 6-volume edition. Lacks spine, original cloth boards detached and rubbed at edges, front free endpaper present but detached and chipped on all edges, no half-title, otherwise all pages and illustrations present; some pencil underlining; some pages detached or escaping stitching. Seller Inventory # 005484
Title: Turning and Mechanical Manipulation. Vol IV....
Publisher: Holtzapffel & Co., London
Publication Date: 1881
Binding: Original Cloth, No Spine
Condition: See Description
Dust Jacket Condition: None
Edition: First Edition
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
8vo, pp. xx, 592, [12, ads] + 22 plates. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards blocked in blind. Some light soiling. Boards marked, extremities a touch worn, rear joint just cracking at foot and front joint at head. Modern bookplate to front pastedown along with a different address label, some old pencil notes and a few inserted scrap sheets. The fourth volume of the Holtzapffel family?s magisterial and comprehensive work on turning, each separately published and covering a different area. The first three volumes were written by Charles Holtzapffel (the third published posthumously) and this fourth and the fifth by his son, John Jacob. This volume covers simple turning, while the fifth is on ornamental turning. Seller Inventory # 6982
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