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The young mill-wright and miller's guide : illustrated by twenty-eight descriptive plates / by Oliver Evans.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection 664.7 Ev12 1832
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Oliver, 1755-1819.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mills and mill-work--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Mills and mill-work.
- Flour mills--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Flour mills.
- Flour mills--Design and construction.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 9 unnumbered pages-383 pages, 1 unnumbered page (last blank), 28 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- The seventh edition. With additions and corrections, by the professor of mechanics in the Franklin Institute of the state of Pennsylvania; and a description of an improved merchant flour-mill, with engravings, by C. and O. Evans, engineers.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Carey and Lea, 1832 (T. Town, printer).
- Notes:
- Editor's "Advertisement" signed: Thomas P. Jones.
- "Part the fifth, containing the practical mill-wright, or instructions for building mills, with all their proportions; suitable to all falls, of from three to thirty-six feet. Received from Thomas Ellicott, mill-wright": p. [275]-360.
- Copyright for 6th edition entered November 7 1829 by Carey & Lea (t.p. verso).
- Printer statement from t.p. verso.
- Plates are numbered I-XXVI, 96-97.
- Includes engravings by J. Yeager and Young & Delleker.
- Signatures: [1] 2-48 .
- Additions in ms.
- Local Notes:
- Biographical material (1 folded leaf) inserted.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints 12327
- OCLC:
- 54311465
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