The Carpenter and Joiner's Assistant: Being a Comprehensive Treatise on the Selection, Preparation, and Strength of Materials, and the Mechanical Principles of Framing, with Their Application in Carpentry, Joinery, and Hand-Railing; Also, a Complete Treatise on Lines; and a Illustrated Glossary of Terms Used in Architecture and Building. By James Newlands, Borough Engineer of Liverpool. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Plates and Many Hundred Engravings on Wood. London: Blackie & Son. Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Undated title page with preface dated February, 1880.
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Bound by Blackie and Son.
Size: 265 x 354 x 46 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[half title, title, v-xiii, 254pp., plates I.-C.]
Spine lightly rubbed and scuffed. Lacking tooled label. Both boards securely attached with rubbed joints and very minor wear to hinges. Front joint starting. Boards with very minor scuffing, rubbing, superficial scratches, and marks. Shelf and edge wear. Dulling to page edges. Small dent to the side edge of the rear board. Minor shelf lean. Edge toning as commensurate with the binding to endpapers, as well as marks and very minor foxing. Title page very clean with light toning and very minor creasing. Text block extremely clean with light toning and extremely sporadic very minor foxing. Binder's sticker attached to the rear pastedown.
[OCLC 47244544; MMSID 9930566343804341].
