How It is Made: Describing in Simple Language how Various Machines and Many Articles in Common Use are Manufactured from the Raw Materials

Archibald Williams

Verlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons [1907], London, 1907

Beschreibung

A fascinating juvenile guide to manufactures by Archibald Williams. Dated from copies on Jisc, [1907] edition without 'First printed October 1907' to verso title page, which appears in the 1927 edition.Juvenile literature piece with explanations and descriptions of the manufacturing of various inventions, including money, paper, matches, pianos, candles, soap, chinaware and pottery, glass, photographic plates, mechanism of weaving, and more.Written by Archibald Williams.Featuring a coloured frontispiece and other black and white illustrations in text. In the original publisher's pictorial cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, spine and boards lightly bumped to extremities, rear board lightly soiled. Front free endpaper was pasted to front pastedown by a previous owner. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to first and last few leaves, otherwise pages bright and clean throughout. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and other illustrations in text in black and white. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 816A19

Bibliografische Details

Titel: How It is Made: Describing in Simple ...

Verlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons [1907], London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1907

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Zustand: Very Good

Art des Buches: book