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Title: The Book of Trades, or Library of the Useful Arts.
Description: London: Printed for Tabart and Co. No. 157, New Bond-Street: and to be had of all dealers in books, 1805-1806. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 3 volumes. I: [iv], 152pp.; II: [iv], 163, [i]pp.; III: [iv], 158, [xviii]pp. Volume III, dated 1805, is a first edition. Volumes I and II, dated 1806, are third editions. Original quarter red calf over marbled boards. Part I is illustrated with 23 plates, part II with 24 plates, and part III with 20 plates, for a total of 67 plates. The trades concerned with book production, including bookbinder, type founder, and copper plate-printer, are of particular interest. Ownership inscription on front free endpapers. A very good copy. Very Good.

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