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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Shieldhouse, Stephanie (illustrator).

8vo in fours. vii[i], 102pp, advertising leaf, 2 multi-folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled paper boards, modern printed paper spine label. Prelims and last leaves lightly browned. 'The design of this publication is to assist civil engineers and millwrights in calculating the effect of mechanics' The Monthly Review 1802 Feb. Of the first edition 'The Critical Review; or, Annals of Literature' Vol. XXXIII, 1801 states 'We have seen nothing more satisfactory on this subject than these short Essays. The author joins experiment to calculation; and his fourth essay, on the simplification of machinery, is particularly valuable'. Anderton page 107.…

Zustand: Good. Printed for J. Johnson, London, 1800, 1st edition. Half leather with marbled boards. Gilt lettering on black leather patch to spine. 10.5ins x 8.5ins, viii, 612pp, 12pp index and directions plus 12 plates (2 folding). This is an ex Ipswich Public Library copy with many small discreet library stamps and one larger one to the verso of the title page. Whilst the boards are original the spine is a later replacement as are the endpapers. The text pages are generally very clean, but the plates, the preliminary pages and the index are all foxed to varying degrees.…