The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences
by George Dodd
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Routledge & Co., 1852. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1852. No Edition Remarks. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Missing front free endpaper. Book has a slightly dusty odour. A numbered sticker to spine and wax spots where plate once stuck to front pastedown, but no other potential library markings. Light water staining, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and title pages, as well as rear free endpaper. Red wax blobs and paper traces to front pastedown. Light cracking to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Text block edges marked. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with some water staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Moderate splitting and fraying to joints. Spine has heavier tanning with soft splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Sticker to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1698056345ADA
- Title
- The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences
- Author
- George Dodd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Co.
- Date Published
- 1852
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....