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Davies, D. C.
A Treatise on Slate and Slate Quarrying Scientific, Practical, and Commercial.
Publisher: Crosby Lockwood and Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1887
Stock Code: 10314
Third Edition. 12 mo, pp., xviii, 186, 16, 32 (catalogues). Fold-out frontispiece map of North Wales with slate range outlined, plus 39 figures, of which Fig 12 is a fold-out plate. Publishers’ pebbled and embossed olive green cloth with gilt titles to upper board and remains of printed paper title label to spine. Advertisements to endpapers. Attractively bound volume, slightly shaken with cracked inner hinges; title label toned and substantially lacking. Scattered light foxing otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. A Good copy. Concise yet thorough work on the formation of slate and its geology, the history of its extraction in Britain and the contemporary slate trade in North Wales. Scarce. £95.00