Industrial Biography, Iron-Workers and Tool-Makers by Samuel Smiles
1864. Author's edition. 410 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Water marking throughout. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Tear from removed label on front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is significantly dulled.