BANKS, Langley. - The Joiners&Rsquo; Companion to a New System of Handrailing, Namely the Square Cut.

Manchester: Privately published, and printed by Wilcock and Norbury, 1853. 4to., unpaginated, comprises 48 engraved plates with accompanying text, contemporary half brown calf with brown moire cloth boards, gilt-lettered to front board, unlettered spine with gilt-ruled compartments, additional frontispiece portrait of author, with tissue guard; neat ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, front free endpaper, frontispiece and tissue guard have vertical crease (production fault), foxing and toning to prelims, with some light foxing - especially to margins - throughout, partial sunning and light marking to cloth, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good(+) copy. Contains two different plates numbered ‘IV’, and no plate ‘XXXIII’ - believed complete; The British Library copy also has 48 plates as does the only other copy we have found once offered for sale. Banks designed and built the Grand Twin Geometrical staircase in the Crystal Palace, London, for the Great Exhibition of 1851; which plate one illustrates in plan and elevation. Rather scarce.

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