Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1956, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, Reprint, Illustrated By: Photographic and Illustrations

How to Use This Book by editor, colour plates and tables and acknowledgements. Map illustrated endpapers, both different, front end paper showing Oceans. Continents. Seas. Currents. Principal Mountain Ranges, the rear endpapers show Principal Shipping and Air Routes of the World. Colour illustrated frontispiece showing various architectural styles from Assyrian through to modern. The text is illustrated with copious black-and-white photographs, illustrations, line drawings and graphics. There are seven coloured plates within the text. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed decoration to the front panel and gilt decoration (six gilt horizontal lines) and titles to the backstrip. Blue coloured tint to the top textblock edge. A one volume encyclopaedia, set alphabetically, first published in 1956, on information for the young and enquiring mind. Softening of the head and of the heel of the backstrip and light bumping to the book corners. Flecking to the top and bottom edges of the book panels and the occasional spot in the body of the front panel. Age toning of the internal pages. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. (6), 7-464 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Encyclopaedia; Education. Inventory No: 0114383.