Turning Lathes: A Manual for Technical Schools and Apprentices. A Guide to Turning, Screw-Cutting, Metal-Spinning, Ornamental Turning, &c. [Bound with:] No. 4 Catalogue of Engineers’ Tools etc. Price sixpence. Britannia Company.

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8vo, pp. viii, 228, [4, ads]; [ii], iv, 184, [4]. Full-page illustrations included within pagination, two leaves of advertisements on pink paper pasted in, one (printed ‘Previous Lists Cancelled’) seemingly replacing a torn out leaf. Original blue cloth, spine and front board blocked in gilt, rear board blocked in blind. Advertisements printed on poorer quality paper and toned. Spine faded and rubbed, extremities worn, top corners discoloured and cloth softened. Ownership inscription of H. W. B. Bruno (1895) to flyleaf, modern bookplate to pastedown.