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The Elements of Machine Design: Text Books of Science Series -by william Cawthorne Unwin, 1888, Tenth Edition, Revised and Enlarged ( Presentation Plate from Miss Dorothy Unwin in Memory of Wm. Cawthorne Unwin )
by Unwin , William Cawthorne ( W. / Wm. )
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good (see description)/No Jacket as issued
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About This Item
London, England: London, UK: Longmans, Green and Co., 1888, Tenth Edition, 1st Thus, Revised and Enlarged , 1888. ----------hardcover, about 4.75 x 7 inches inches, a solid clean Very Good copy, quarter bound leather with marbled text block edges, some browning to the spine, some pulls, nicks and rubbing to the boards and leather, 509 pages, on the verso of the front board is a presentation plate from Miss Dorothy Unwin in memory of the late Dr William Cawthorne Unwin, dated July 1933, WC Unwin lived the last years of his life with his cousin Dorothy, this may have come from Unwin's personal library although there is no indication of that being so (it just seems natural that Miss Unwin would have disposed of WCU's library who had died in March 1933 ), it is likely that Unwin had these bound, a nice copy, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///. First Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good (see description)/No Jacket as issued. Illus. by Leather Bound. 4.75 w x 7h Inches.
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- book dealer
- Leonard Shoup
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 159109
- Title
- The Elements of Machine Design: Text Books of Science Series -by william Cawthorne Unwin, 1888, Tenth Edition, Revised and Enlarged ( Presentation Plate from Miss Dorothy Unwin in Memory of Wm. Cawthorne Unwin )
- Author
- Unwin , William Cawthorne ( W. / Wm. )
- Illustrator
- Leather Bound
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- second hand - Very Good (see description)
- Jacket condition
- No Jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, UK: Longmans, Green and Co., 1888, Tenth Edition, 1st Thus, Revised and Enlarged
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- Unwin , William Cawthorne ( W. / Wm. ), stpaul'sPres
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non Fiction;
- Size
- 4.75 w x 7h Inches
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- text block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book.... [more]
- rubbing
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- plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,... [more]
- jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1st thus
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- spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf.... [more]
- edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a... [more]
- verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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