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Hard Cover (x-library). Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Introduction to aircraft and how they work for young people going into industry. Bright silver titles on bright blue cloth. 64pp. Ex-library with usual markings and labels, none external, card pocket remnant rear.

Zustand: Fair. 1968. First Published in GB. 64 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Pencil inscription to front flap. Light tanning to spine and edges. Staining to rear panel. Wear marks and foxing overall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2, 32, 30 [numbered 3-32] pp. ; illustrated ; 26 cm.; subtitled, "Devoted to horticulture, arboriculture and rural affairs." ; OCLC: 1639010 ; LC: SB1; Dewey: 630.5 ; Ceased publication with vol. 30 (1888) ; edited from 1876 by the notable Victorian horticulturalist, Thomas Meecham ; decorated pictorial paper wrappers ; sunning to edges ; foxing ; staples still tight ; publisher's subscription mailing label affixed to front cover ; near full page illustrations in black and white of Kaempferia Gilbertii, fam. Zingiberaceae (Ginger), and Dieffenbachia Jenmanii from Guiana; extensive advertisement section features Victorian steam driven equipment and plant propagation devices ; VG. Book.

Paper wrappers. Zustand: Fine. FIRST EDITION. Tall side-sewn booklet (25.3 x 16cm), pp. [2 blank], 27, [3, incl. 'Marks used on Ruskin Pottery, 1898-1935)'] + 2 plates, incl. 1 colour. Cream paper wrappers, front wrapper lettered in orange, cord-sewn. Gentle edgewear. Faint, fine spotting to verso of rear wrapper, else, clean, bright and tight. Birmingham Post clipping (10.02.1978) 'The family fired with enthusiasm,' about the Ruskin Pottery, laid in. Fine. A gorgeous first edition copy of L. B. Powell's illustrated memoir (and memorial) of Ruskin Pottery's master potter, Howson Taylor, printed under the direction of master printer Leonard Jay at the City of Birmingham School of Printing, Central School of Arts and Crafts, with student and staff collaboration, including "Compositors' work by boys in the pre-apprentice classes"; from the library of Jay's friends, the Birmingham-based artists Ernest and Catherine Hill, with their supplied cream paper dust jacket (nicked). The Ruskin Pottery was founded in 1898 by William Howson Taylor's father, Edward R. Taylor, who was headmaster of Birmingham School of Art. Howson Taylor (1876-1935), and the pottery, were renowned for their "remarkable glazes". The pottery closed in July 1935, when Taylor retired (and died in the September); the formulae for the glazes and all the pottery documentation were destroyed to prevent reproductions. Master printer-craftsman and pioneer of printing education, Leonard Jay (1888-1963) came from a family "steeped in printing". An Artisan Art Scholarship allowed Jay to attend the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts, Holborn from 1909, where "he enrolled on the newly established typography evening classes run by the printer-scholar John Henry Mason" and in 1912 was appointed Mason's first assistant instructor. Diverging from his mentor's focus on traditional hand-processes, Jay "understood if technical education was to succeed it had to work with existing trade practices," and introduced students to commercial printing, demonstrating "that quality bookwork could be produced using modern machinery" (ODNB). In 1925 Jay was appointed the first head of the Birmingham School of Printing, "the largest centre of printing outside London," where he would remain until his retirement in 1953. "Through an innovative publishing programme, Jay provided all students with the opportunity to produce at least one piece of work of great distinction of which they could be justly proud" and under his direction around 150 (the number varies) finely printed books and pamphlets, including this one, were produced by the Department's students and staff. A friend of Jay's, Ernest F. Hill, RBSA (1873-1960) was a British painter, arts educator and Vice President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RSBA). An early Newlyn group member, he worked primarily in watercolour, favouring British landscape and coastal scenes; he exhibited at the Royal Academy until 1946, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, but his paintings were most often hung in Birmingham (CAI, 2021). Hill was Headmaster of the prestigious Bournville School of Art and Crafts, and was well-connected in regional cultural networks, as well as with the Cadbury family. Less in known of Catherine Hill, who was a watercolour artist, print maker and book binder. Their library reflected these interests, featuring numerous arts and crafts, typographical and fine press books, often in excellent condition, thanks to the addition of hand-marbled, clear or paper wrappers (as here).

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Prater, Ernest; Brock, H.M.; Wightman, W.E.; Peddie, T.H.; Inns, Kenneth; Moorsom, F.G.; Sutcliff, Norman; Holloway, Cyril; Lloyd, Stanley; (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Cycling Round the World - Part I - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years travelling over 20,000 miles on his own!; Akimaldo's Great Idea - A story which proves West Africans have a sense of humour "even if in a somewhat perverted form"; The Girl Stowaway of the 'Cecilie' - Part I - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; The "Teak-Wallahs" of Northern Siam - A fascinating photo-illustrated look at the teak industry of northern Siam; Two Men and a Donkey - Part III - The adventures of two young artists walking from the South of France to Spain; Europeans Walk Through Fire! - An amazing photo-illustrated account of two Europeans who traversed white-hot coals barefoot with Hindu devotees, emerging apparently unscathed!; Hide-and-Seek With a Lion - A rare time when a can opener saved a life; All in the Day's Work - J.A. Browne, a policeman at Antler, Manitoba, heads out to gather a tough character - with photo of Browne; The Secret Pass - "Slippery" Wiley continues his misdeeds in the West Australia goldfields; The Yok San Mystery - Ning Wo solves another puzzling mystery in the Malay States; The Avenger of Blood - A curious case of Eskimo blood-vengeance from Alaska; "The Land of Opportunity" - Part II - Arthur W. Upfield provides readers with an idea of what lies in store if they elect to 'try their luck' in Australia, with photos; An African Man-Hunt - E.E. Stuart-Reid chased a rogue native constable of the Northern Rhodesia Police through the forest for three weeks; 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Square inch of loss to upper corner of front cover. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Sutcliffe, Norman; Lance; Sindall, A.W.; Holloway, Cyril; Prater, Ernest; Spence, Percy; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Inns, Kenneth; Seper, George (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Bill Carlisle, Train Robber - An account of the amazing exploits of a man described as "the last of the train-robbers", who would notify officials when he was about to rob a train!; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part I - A thrilling account of adventures on a remote Dutch East Indies island in pursuit of prehistoric flesh-eating lizards (the Komodo dragon) - with photos; The City of Golden Geese - A lively photo-illustrated account of the foie gras industry in the old city of Strasburg in Alsace; Mungoro Meets His Match - A Rhodesian tale; The End of the Chase - A hunt for a monstrous elephant near Lake Nyasa; Photo of a Kentish stilt-walker in field of hops; The Man in No. 35 - How a British officer discovered, in a Russian prison, Julius Weinberg, a Jewish banker who had actually handed Lenin and his accomplices ten million marks from the German Government in order to finance the Bolshevik revolution that destroyed Russia as a fighting force - the little man knew too much, and paid with his life for his refusal to surrender the incriminating receipts; Cycling Round the World - Part II - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years riding over 20,00 miles! - with photos; The bachelor Homesteaders of British Columbia - A breezy photo-illustrated account of the adventures and hardships of this cheery, happy-go-lucky class of men; The Girl Stowaway of the Cecilie - Part II - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; A Ride in the Night - An officer of the King's African Rifles falls ill on the Abyssinian frontier of Kenya Colony; The Chief's Gift - A tale from a New Zealand sheep farmer; Teddy Murphy's Close Call - A child disappears into a well in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.