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Shop Management.: With an introduction by Henry R. Towne.
by TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers,, 1919. Later printing (first published in 1911), retaining the rare jacket. Originally published in 1903 as a study within the journal Translations of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the work was republished in book form following the success of Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management, the foundation text of what would become known as Taylorism, the entirely rationalized organization of labour for the highest production. Shop Management presents the ideas more as a handbook, a practical exposition of the theories of the Principles, written "in such a way that everything in it should be intelligible to any one with a high school education" (preface). Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, device to front cover in blind. With dust jacket. Folding plate, illustrations and diagrams in the text. Light cockling to cloth at head of front cover, a near-fine copy in the acceptable jacket, chipped with some loss to text, small patch of tape repair on verso, still all holding.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 146560
- Title
- Shop Management.
- Author
- TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers,
- Date Published
- 1919
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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