Paisley Artizans' Institution
by [Membership Ticket]
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
No Place: No Publisher, 1847. Single sided engraved ticket, approximately 90mm x 65mm in size. Browned, some light abrasions to surface with slight loss of text (?Sec.) to right hand side, reverse lightly stained with ink and soiled from handling. The membership card of Robert ???, No. 136, and signed beneath by the Secretary D.[aniel] Campbell for the years 1847-8. An early card, the Institute only opening on the 16th of November 1847, at 109 High Street, apparently with a library, news-room, rooms for classes and lectures and a suite of baths, the terms being a shilling for entry and eight shillings a year, and it was shut on the Sabbath. Daniel Campbell is listed as one of the directors, with the keeper being Daniel M'Kinley (Fowler's Paisley Commercial Directory 1848-9). First Edition. Unbound. Good. 64mo (Oblong). Ticket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Zetetic Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002616
- Title
- Paisley Artizans' Institution
- Author
- [Membership Ticket]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- No Publisher
- Place of Publication
- No Place
- Date Published
- 1847
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Paisley, Ticket, Artisan's Institution, Scotland, Bull17, Ebay
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nineteenth Century; Ephemera;
- Size
- 64mo (Oblong)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Zetetic Books
Biblio member since 2015
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
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Online book store, regular catalogues / lists issued
Glossary
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Unbound
- A book or pamphlet which does not have a covering binding, sometimes by original design, sometimes used to describe a book in...