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Author	Griffin, Richard
Title	THE BOOK OF TRADES or Circle of the Useful Arts. Illustrated by engravings and woodcuts. Fifth edition.
PlacePub	Glasgow
Publisher	Richard Griffin & Co., and Thomas Tegg London.
Date	1837
Illustrations	Copperplate frontispiece of sign-painter, extra copperplate titlepage with cameo of Mattrass Maker + 20 plates of different trades, engraved & some also drawn by John Miller + numerous text illlustrations.
Description	Small octavo brown cloth (tips worn, neatly rebacked with original spine laid on) [xii] +388pp some foxing and marginal light marks of former damp. Nice inscription on free endpaper: "Presented to Master John Sage as a trifling reward for application & industry. Frome=field Midds 1841". *Detailed description of various trades published in the year Queen Victoria ascended the throne. The Bookseller, etc.). The last engraving, "The Bill Sticker," shows a tradesman on a ladder posting bills, including one advertising this book, and another for Griffin's Bazaar Glasgow.
Booknumber	P6656
Price	Price: GBP 65.00 or USD 80.00
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