R Smith Casson (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Grey paper covers are darkened at edges. Sound binding, with paper split beginning over front internal hinge from upper edge. Clean pages and plates. Contents include: Presidential Address - Museums in the Present and Future, by Sir Hercules Read; Wayland's Smithy, Berkshire, by C R Peers and Reginald A Smith; The Dorian Invasion reviewed in the light of some New Evidence, by Stanley Casson; Notes on Some English Alabaster Carvings, by W L Hildburgh; Notes on Some Recent Excavations at Westminster Abbey, by H F Westlake; Notes, reviews, etc. 167-270 pages. Contains black and white plates and illustrations. No dust jacket, as published. Stamps for Halifax Antiquarian Society and "Withdrawn" stamp on inside front cover. Pages of main text and plates (including reverse of plates) are free from stamps. Hand-written reference numbers on lower spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 40119101058. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Soft cover. 8vo. pp 72. Colour illustrated covers. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. Published on the occasion of the exhibition. Photograph of the artist stuck in at rear. Good condition. Previous owner's name inscribed at verso of cover, pages little yellowed towards edge. Small pen arrow at page 7. Covers are rubbed at corners and edge of spine, with surface marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Dark red covers with gilt lettering on spine are lightly rubbed at corners, with wear at spine-ends. Covers, spine and front end-paper are almost detached. Title-page is loose, otherwise text-block binding intact with slight separation at some gatherings and previous taped repair to pages 82-83. Clean pages, darkened around edges. Fold-out plates are clean and intact. Library pocket and plate in front. Contents include: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting held in Westminster on 30th April 1884; On the Use of Raw Coal in the Blast Furnace, by I Lowthian Bell; On Gas Puddling and Heating Furnaces, with Special Reference to the Casson-Bicheroux System, by R Smith-Casson; On the Most Recent Results Obtained in the Application and Utilisation of Gaseous Fuel, by W S Sutherland; On Iron and Steel Permanent Way, by Walter R Browne; On the Behaviour of Armour of Different Kinds under Fire, by Capt C Orde-Browne; On Recent Improvements in Iron and Steel Shipbuilding, by William John; On Improvements in Apparatus for Gas Analysis, by J E Stead; Notes on the Progress of the Home and Foreign Iron and Steel Industries. Fold-out plates showing: Casson's Patent Direct Acting Gas System as applied to Heating Furnaces, to illustrate Mr R Smith-Casson's Paper; To illustrate Mr Sutherland's Paper. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 02617053134. All our books are sent by tracked mail.