The Mines and its Wonders

Gall and Inglis, London and Edinburgh, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (illustrated Cloth). Fair Condition. Illustrator: Illustrated. List of illustrations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece, being an etching of Cornish tin mines below the sea. The text is illustrated with black-and-white edges. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with coloured illustrations and silver coloured embossed titles to the front panel and back strip. A book on mining in the late 19th century, including as its first chapter the dangers of mining. The book is in quite ordinary shape – please see photograph. Rubbing, fraying and softening of the back strip edges and there is bumping, rubbing and fraying of the book corners. The underlying board is visible to a small or large degree at the corners. Rubbing of the other book edges and there is quite significant rubbing of the book panels (especially of the coloration of the front cover illustration). The decoration, titles and anything else that was on the back strip is very faint. Tanning and foxing of the text block edges and pages with a stain to the lower text edge, closest to the back strip, that runs the full width of the text block. At various places through the book the underlying webbing is visible. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [4], 5 - 128 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; Mining; Britain; 19th century; Inventory No: 0290011. .