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GEOLOGY...NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LEEK, STAFFORDSHIRE. [Inscribed Presentation] by Wardle, Thomas
- Bookseller: Buday Books / Vintage Reading (TM)
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 2408
- Book condition: Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; cover tips bumped; endpapers r
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Robert Nall, Bookseller,
- Place: Leek [England]:
- Date published: 1863
- Pages: 71pp. +
Description
Leek [England]:: Robert Nall, Bookseller,, 1863. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; cover tips bumped; endpapers renewed; bookplate preserved; otherwise, contents condition good.. 5 plates. With one b&w folding plate (lightly foxed) of strata sections + 4 b&w full-pg. plates of fossils. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION on title page; `To Nelson Dale Esqr [Prof at Hamilton] / with the author's kind regards / May 1st 1867.' ||| Here, Wardle reprinted his research (earlier appeared in J. Sleigh's 1862 `Ancient History of Leek' pp. 225-296. ||| Wardle 1831-1909, silk manufacturer / scholar, wrote valuable books on silks, silk preparation, & power loom silk weaving. His other works--not this title--located at Library of Congress, British Library, Harvard, & Univ. of Chicago. ||| Leek, a market town chartered by King John in 1208, has been a silk manufacturing center since late 1600s. ||| Unusual, rather uncommon work.
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