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Percy, C.M.
The Mechanical Equipment of Collieries.
Publisher: James Collins & Kingston Limited, Manchester;
Date of Publication: 1905
Stock Code: 10332
FIRST EDITION. Large quarto, pp. xxx, 718, 12 (advertisements). Over 400 illustrations including frontispiece photographic portrait of the Author with facsimile signature to lower margin, of which 27 fold-out plates. Publishers’ blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board; adverts to endpapers. Cover cloth lightly surface soiled, sunned to spine with small loss at tail and faint ink-stamp, and wear to corners. A shaken copy with weak inner hinges; ownership inscriptions to front pastedown in ink dated in year of publication and 1911, one with a Wigan address; free endpapers toned. A Good copy. Exceedingly comprehensive work on the power and provision of equipment for coal mining including ventilation, haulage, pumping, gears and winding engines by Cornelius McLeod Percy (1846-1903), the Principal of Wigan Mining College. Percy wrote extensively on the subject of mining, and had a long career in the Wigan Coal and Iron Company before devoting himself to technical education. This work was posthumously completed by his son Frank Percy and close colleague George H. Winstanley. £150.00