‎Bridges t.c‎

‎Bridges T C‎

‎The Book of Invention‎

‎London: George G Harrap and Company Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1925. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. One of the most gloriously preserved bindings I've had in 40 years of trading. Green cloth-covered boards with SUMPTUOUSLY BRIGHT gilt titling gilt borders and pictorial paper onlay to the front cover and similarly superbly bright gilt titling gilt decorative blocks and a gilt owl illustration to the spine. In the original identically designed dust-jacket on heavy card stock. The dust-jacket has some clear archive tape 'strengthening' to the inside mainly to the head/tail of the spine but no major tears just a few small chips to the foot of the d/j. The dust-jacket is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Near Fine. The page fore-edges are lightly foxed and internally the plain endpapers have a small corner loss to the front free endpaper where the paper was caught in the printing - subsequently losing a small part of the now proud edge - pretty negligible. Some pale foxing pale lemon spotting/patching here and there throughout the book some pages a little more affected than others. Apart from this the book is clean tight and bright with NO Inscriptions or other Marks. 287 pp. Plus unpaginated a full colour ballooning frontispiece numerous b/w full page plates b/w illustrations in line and half-tone in the text and 3 other full colour plates in the book. Contents include : - Primitive Inventions; Discoveries of the Ancients; Iron Tin and Steel; The Beginning of Clocks and Watches; The coming of Steam; Gas-Lighting and the Safety Lamp; The Electric Telegraph; Submarine Telegraphy; The Sewing Machine; Diving-suits and Diving Bells; Photography; Modern Printing The Telephone; The Development of the Motor Car; Electric Light and the Phonograph; Balloons and Airships; The Aeroplane; Moving Pictures; Radium and the X-Ray etc etc. Superb covers - sadly I can't grade it Fine due to the pale foxing inside but the covers are a marvellous example of a binding fron the first quarter of the 20th Century before they became more utilitarian in general. See Images. ; Romance of Knowlege Series; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall . George G Harrap and Company Ltd, hardcover‎

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