Treen and Other Wooden Bygones; An Encyclopaedia and Social History
by Pinto, Edward H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG-/VG- (light wear to boards, corners bumped and scuffed. Pages are clean and clear otherwise. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.
- ISBN 10
- 0713515333
- ISBN 13
- 9780713515336
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Bell, 1969. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (light wear to boards, corners bumped and scuffed. Pages are clean and clear otherwise. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.). Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; gilt spine lettering; golden dust jacket with black illustration and lettering; x, 458 pages 239 plates, illustrations, portrait. Contents: The apothecary -- Costume accessories -- Drinking -- Eating -- Farm -- Fire and lighting -- Kitchen -- Laundry and cleaning devices -- Love spoons and other love tokens -- Mortars, grinders and graters -- Moulds -- Nuts, gourds, fruit stone, jet and bog oak jewellery, petrified wood -- Parcelling, postage, sealing and document storage -- Pastimes -- Printing (textile and wallpaper) and woodcut and engraving blocks -- Reading, writing, copying, drawing, painting and modelling ancillaries -- Sailors', sailmakers' and fishermen's devices -- Scientific and reckoning, measuring, calculating and weighing -- Tea, coffee and chocolate-drinking accessories -- Textile workers' devices -- Tobacco accessories -- Toilet and bedroom accessories -- Tools, devices, techniquies and some products of specialized woodworkers -- Trade and craft devices, -- Trade signs, ships' figureheads, fairground steeds -- Tuition -- Watch stands.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 180408
- Title
- Treen and Other Wooden Bygones; An Encyclopaedia and Social History
- Author
- Pinto, Edward H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-/VG- (light wear to boards, corners bumped and scuffed. Pages are clean and clear otherwise. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0713515333
- ISBN 13
- 9780713515336
- Publisher
- Bell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- General Decorative Arts ; Wood carvings ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
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- VG-/VG-
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- Jacket
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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....