How it is Made, Describing in Simple Language How Various Machines and Many Articles in Common Use are Manufactured from the Raw Materials

Not dated but c 1910. 474pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and two colour title page. Decorated and illustrated publisher's cloth boards with gilt titles and finishing (a little worn at edges, slightly faded). Top edge gilded. Internally front free endpaper absent, but neat, clean, bright and tight. A handsome, vintage volume revealing how things were made at around the start of the 20th century. Sections on printing money, making paper, making matches, building pianos, mechanisation of weaving, the biscuit factory, photographic plates, candles and soaps, rubber goods, cycle-building, motor cars, saws and files, guns and armour and many more.