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Seeley and Co., 1911. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1911. No Edition Stated. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. B&W photographs throughout. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to spine ends. Minor tanning to spine, with scuffing and marking to boards.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1910. hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 160 pages. Includes eight black and white illustrations. Red, black and cream titles and pictorial design on brick-colored cloth; title with gilt background on spine. Former owner name on front paste-down endpaper; some browning on endpapers. Part of The Wonder Library. 061507C

London: Seeley and Co., 1911. Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Slight lean to spine, boards faintly marked front and rear, light wear to edges. Faint marks to endpapers, foxing to page block and page edges. Mark to page 19. All other pages clean. AD. Hardcover. Good. Used.

The Wonders of Mechanical Ingenuity, Archibald Williams. Published by Seeley & Co. Ltd., London, 1910. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 160 pages plus 15 pgs. of publisher's ads. Red pictorial board with black and gilt illustration and titles front and spine. Contains photographic plates. In very good condition with light board wear; small mailing label free endpaper; tiny bookseller label rear pastedown (Thompson Stationer Company, Vancouver); a few thumb marks; lightly shaken; all pages firmly secured.Archibald Williams (1871-1934) was a highly competent technical journalist and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He wrote several very popular books for boys. The Wonders of Mechanical Ingenuity (1910) deals with the development of mechanism and manufacture and includes a wide array of subject areas such as watches and chronometers, calculating machines, combustion engines, motor-cars and motor-boats.

London: Seeley and Co Ltd, 1910. illus. brown bds with spine ends bumped and rubbed. 1 corner bumped. 2 corners lightly rubbed. book plate to endpaper. scuffs from removal of stickers to endpaper. presumed 1st. foxing. 8 full page b/w illus. 160pp + 16 ads. pencil ticks to books list after fep.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Plates. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.