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1864 James Brindley and the Early Engineers
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition of Samuel Smiles's biography of engineer James Brindley, a master canal engineer who was also responsible for building an engine for draining a coal mine, and for building a machine for a silk mill.
The first single volume edition of this work, adapted from the author's previously published 'Lives of the Engineers'.
Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and with vignette illustrations throughout.
With a publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated November 1863, and with advertisements to endpapers.
Inscription of I J Thaw to title page head.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with a touch of fading to back strip, and with boards bright. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to title page head. Pages clean and bright.
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