The romance of modern manufacture : a popular account of the marvels of manufacturing / by Charles R. Gibson ... ; with 28 illustrations & 16 diagrams.
Charles Robert Gibson (1870-1931)
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258625
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv [i.e. xvi], 17-319, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., diagrams ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "150 / net / 4X= / 9/9". Provenance: Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): men at work at a furnace; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped machinery, gilt lettering and red and white stamped women with roller and bolts of cloth on spine.
Makers and roles
Charles Robert Gibson (1870-1931), author