Sparke william (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. No Jacket. 494 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. ; black boards with coloured decorations. Title fore edge lightly silverfished.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition copy. . (film, movies, motion pictures).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A limited edition copy of this illustrated memoir of the inventor of the flying shuttle, with folding plates. A limited edition copy, with only 300 large paper copies being printed.In full red cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece, 23 plates, and 2 folding diagrams. Collated, complete.The memoir of John Kay,an English inventor whose most important creation was theflying shuttle, which was a key contribution to theIndustrial Revolution.With a review of the textile trade and manufacture from earliest times by John Lord, a brief memoir of the author by his brother William Lord, and an introduction by Archibald Sparke. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Fading to spine and board edges. Odd small mark to boards. Light spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…