Description: The New Guide to Masonry, Bricklaying and Plastering, Theoretical and Practical, Edited by R. Scott Burns, M’Gready, Thomson, & Niven, Glasgow, Melbourne, & Dunedin, c.1872, 440pp, 3/4 leather, 9 x 11”, 4to Fair condition. Wear and chipping to boards. Hinges and joints are cracked. Rear board is attached to binding by fragile cording. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. Chipping and cracking to spine. Title in gilt on spine is still legible. Marbling to fore edges and endpapers. Gift inscription to James Keanie on title page (to James Keanie, with best wishes for a prosperous career as a builder and architect, 1896). Toning, age-staining, finger-staining, and foxing throughout textblock. Includes 160 illustrated plates at rear of textblock. Please see photos. Large volume that was published with the intention of being “the most comprehensive and exhaustive treatise hitherto issued” relating to “the building arts”. This copy bears a gift inscription to James Young Keanie of Lochwinnoch, Scotland. Keanie (February 27, 1871 - May 24, 1931) was born to a building family, associated with addresses at Calder Street, Church Street, and Braevar, Braehead, where Keanie grew up in an industrious environment, learning as much about the construction trade as possible. By the time Keanie was in his thirties, he was running a successful building firm, locally known as Keanie’s, that specialized in private housing, which was in high demand in the area. In the following decades, Keanie’s erected around 4000 homes in the Johnstone and Paisley area. FORN-SHELF-0542-XX-2406-JC915
Price: 175 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-10-17T20:31:34.000Z
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Binding: 3/4 leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated, Inscribed
Publisher: M’Gready, Thomson, & Niven
Topic: Architecture
Subject: Reference
Original/Facsimile: Original
