Sears john edward ed (2 risultati)

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. The detailed annual compendium of building and estate management firms and businesses from 1918. A very scarce first edition. In the original, full, cloth binding. A comprehensive collection of the advertisements and contact details of numerous building and estate management businesses. Including multiple professions such as plasterers, joiners, electricians and painters. Edited by John Edward Sears. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some light shelf wear to the edges and some bumping to the spine. A few light marks to the boards and some fading to the spine. Some scattered spotting to the free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed. None (illustratore). book.…

Condizione: Very Good. Trade catalogue, the sixth annual issue of 1892. Hardcover book . A sumptuous volume in olive-green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and with blind-stamped decorations to front and back covers. 653pp, large quarto. The frontispiece is a fold-out colour lithograph of ceramic mosaic pavements by J.C. Edwards of Ruabon, followed by a pictorial engraved title page, and there are 16 other plate pages, mostly colour lithographs, of marbles, tiles, and sanitary fittings - all as listed in contents. Other pages show advertisments, often pictorial, including wallpaper, hardware, ironmongery, carpentry, brick, and horticultural building manufacturers. There are also sections on architects with addresses and professional rules, building prices etc. A Very Good copy overall. The contents are well bound and clean though not surprisingly with a heavy book like this there are some cracks over internal hinges at endpapers. Browned endpapers and a few creased page corners. Covers are lightly worn with some marks and a dark area to cloth at back. Pictures available.…