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The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory / by R. Moore ; illustrated with 500 engravings.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Canvassing Collection T49 .M82 1879
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, R. (Richard), active 1871-1907.
- Standardized Title:
- Moore's universal assistant and complete mechanic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.
- Dummies (Bookselling).
- Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription trade, etc.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Bookbinding--Specimens.
- Bookbinding.
- Formulas, recipes, etc.
- Industrial arts.
- Technology.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Prospectuses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- [Canvassing book].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : J.S. Ogilvie & Co., [1879]
- Notes:
- Work previously issued under title: Moore's universal assistant and complete mechanic.
- Copyright 1879 held by R. Moore.
- Binding: cloth binding with gilt stamped cloth spine sample mounted to front pastedown; leather spine sample mounted to back pastedown.
- Canvassing book consisting of specimen pages and illustrations, half broadside prospectus with space below for subscribers' names.
- Local Notes:
- Canvassing Collection copy acquired in 2017 from Rulon-Miller Books.
- OCLC:
- 972679209
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