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Elementary Principles of Carpentry, A Treatise... With Practical Rules and Examples. With an Appendix by Peter Barlow.
by TREDGOLD, Thomas:
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, John Weale, 1853 1st. Large hardback, approx 11.5 x 9 inches. Quarter bound in green morocco leather to spine and green cloth to boards. Decorative gilt edging and banding to spine with gilt lettering. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Later fine binding, with later endpapers. Some minor handling marks to pages. some plates have some light mild foxing and spots, including a couple of spots to frontis portrait. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xxiv + 334pp. Illustrated with 53 full-page engraved plates (many are larger fold-out plates.) With B&W diagrams and figures within text.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89859
- Title
- Elementary Principles of Carpentry, A Treatise... With Practical Rules and Examples. With an Appendix by Peter Barlow.
- Author
- TREDGOLD, Thomas:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, John Weale, 1853 1st
- Keywords
- Architecture TREDGOLD, Thomas: Elementary Principles of Carpentry, A Treatise, With Practical Rules and Examples, Appendix by Peter Barlow, John Weale, 1853, 1st, beams, joints, bridges, girders, timber, wood, domes, roofs, floors,
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About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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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....
- Fine Binding
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