Recent Cotton Mill Construction and Engineering. ([1894]). SCARCE

NASMITH, Joseph (1850-1904). Recent Cotton Mill Construction and Engineering. 

“Perhaps in no other branch of textile work has a more marked advance taken place than in the character of the buildings used”. 

124 figures/illustrations as called for by the ‘Index of Illustrations’, including folding monochrome photographic plates. 

284 [26- adverts at the rear] pp. 

Interior: Nibbling to bottom right hand corners with loss to blank bottom margins- without loss to text (for around 35 pages), occasional light spotting, browning, and foxing, a few holes to blank margins,  a few small grease spots to title page.

Exterior: Publisher’s red cloth, some wear, rubbing and fading, corners bumped. Front inner hinges splitting to reveal webbing.

Chapters include: Slow Burning and One-Storeyed Buildings, Cost, Strength, and Fire Resistance of Floors, Steam Engines- General Remarks, Lighting Engines and Other Accessories, Gearing-Toothed Wheels, Calculation of Machines in Mill, Steam Boilers, Fire Appliances: Sprinklers.

8vo. Manchester, John Heywood [no date c. 1894]. 

SCARCE work with some lovely folding plates and period adverts.

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