The Text-Book of Elementary Metallurgy for the use of Students by Hiorns, Arthur H - 1906

Macmillan and Co, 1913. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1913. 3rd edition. 228 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Gutters cracked with exposed netting. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and pre title page. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards rather rubbed and marked overall. Spine is heavily sunned. Gilt is dulled and worn.

Macmillan and Co., 1888. Hardcover. Good. 1888. No Edition Remarks. 243 pages. No dust jacket. Burgundy cloth. Black & white illustrations. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding is shaky, however pages remain fully attached. Some pages are dog-earred. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Spine is heavily tanned. Book has forward lean. Pen marking present. Black marking to rear.

London, UK: MacMillan and Co, 1913. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 3rd, completely revised, edition. xii, 228pp, with occasional charts, diagrams, drawings etc in text. In reddish-brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Speckled text block edges. 12mo. Boards very gently rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge a little dust darkened. Free endpapers toned. Prize Presentation Plate on front paste down indicating the volume was awarded to A P Towler as first prize in Electrical Engineering by the Harris Institute, Preston, in 1919. Else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

London: Macmillan, 1906. Original dark burgundy cloth. xiii, + 212pp., small, intext line-drawn illustrations, plus tables and formulae throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Cloth randomly flecked, with minimal shelfwear. Textblock speckled all edges. Front fly-sheet has lower foredge corner excised, small splash-stain on several adjacent leaves, otherwise clean. No dustjacket. First published 1888, fully revised for the Second Edition [1895]. Written for the budding metallurgist, constituting an elementary treatise on the subject, dealing with principles rather than processes, the contents include: Intro., Definition, Properties, Principles, Alloys, Slags, Fuel, Iron, Steel, Silver-Gold-Platinum, Copper-Zinc, Lead-Tin, Nickel-Cobalt, Aluminium, Mercury, Antimony-Arsenic, Bismuth, Index. Book weight approx. 300g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . 2nd [Revised], 2nd Impression.. Hardcover [Original Cloth]. Good+. 12mo… Read More