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| Id: |
51 | | Title: |
Practical Magazine (The) | | Set Number: |
| | Volumes In Full Run: |
1-7 | | Dates In Full Run: |
1873-1877 | | Volumes Needed: |
7 | | Dates Needed: |
1877 | | Volumes Held: |
1-6 (also called #1-24, New Series #1-24) | | Dates Held: |
1873-1876 | | Binding: |
Vol. 1-2 dark red publisher’s cloth, pictorial gold black and blind stamping; vol. 3-6 pblisher’s russet half leather | | Condition: |
Endpapers cracked, covers scuffed, else good | | Size: |
34.5 x 27 | | City: |
London | | Country: |
UK | | Publisher Or Society: |
Varies | | Notes: |
Length of full run from bookseller listing quoting British Library.¶¶The first four volumes hold two years in 24 issues; the next two volumes hold a New Series of two more years in 24 more issues half as long:¶Vol. 1: #1-6, 1873¶Vol. 2: #7-12, 1873¶Vol. 3: #1,13-18, 1874¶Vol. 4: #19-24, 1874¶Vol. 5: N.S. #1-12, 1875¶Vol. 6: N.S. #13-24, 1876¶¶This set has volume title pages for various publishers and American importers, but all have the printer’s device of The Chiswick Press (London: Charles Whittingham & Co.) on title verso. Despite differences in binding and publisher, library stamps show that this set has been together since at least 1891.¶¶The indexed binding articles are: ¶Vol.1 p. 48-49, “Specimen of Ornamental Bookbinding of the Sixteenth Century.”¶Vol. 4 p. 59-64, “Bookbinding in the International Exhibition” by Henry T. Woods, reprinted from J. Soc. Arts, with 8 wood engravings of binding machines.¶There are other articles on related topics like gold leaf manufacture. | | Frequency: |
Monthly | | Serial Number: |
48 | | Other Titles: |
| | Provenance: |
Stamps of Oakland Free Library, 1891 |
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