Firemen and Their Exploits: With Some Account of the Rise and Development of Fire-Brigades, of Various Appliances for Saving Life at Fires and Extinguishing the Flames

Author(s): Holmes, F M

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	N/A
Dust Jacket Protection:	N/A
Signature:	None
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	S W Partridge & Co
Publication Year:	1899
Publication Place:	London, UK
Book ID:	026127
Catalogue(s):	Culture and Society ◇ History - General

168pp, 20pp publisher's catalogue, various in-text black and white engravings. Pictorial brown cloth-covered boards; blind-embossed design on front, gilt titles on front and spine; patterned endpapers. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends with cloth wearing through, quite cocked. Text block edges tanned. Endpapers tanning, three previous owner's names on front free endpaper. Page margins tanned, pages ageing; gutters cracked and strained, volume quite loose. Otherwise internally neat and clean.

Keywords:

Fire Fire-fighting The Fire Service The Fire Brigade Firemen