[Rarebooks] FS: 1884 Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Knight, Edward H.  "KNIGHT'S NEW MECHANICAL DICTIONARY. A Description of
Tools, Instruments, Machines, Processes, and Engineering. With Indexical
References to Technical Journals (1876-1880)"

Boston; Houghton Mifflin and Company: 1884.

An updating of the ‘American Mechanical Dictionary’, taking into account
all the inventions and developments in the five years from 1876-1880,
especially as shown at the Philadelphia and Paris Expositions. A massive,
heavily illustrated, fascinating book, of great interest to historians of
Victorian industry and technology.

Hardcover. 7.5”x10.5”, viii + 960 pages, 2,549 wood engraved
illustrations, plus 56 full-page plates; a large heavy book whose front
hinge is a bit wonky and has been reglued; rear hinge cracked but tight;
light cover wear, a little soil, tape repair to margin of first two pages.
A book whose basic problem is usually the binding giving way, in a binding
that still has a few miles to go.  [09486]  $250.00

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