London, Eng.: Edward Stanford, 1876. Metallic Mining and Collieries by Warington W. Smyth; Coal by A. Galletly; Building Stones by Professor Hull; Explosive Compounds by W. Mattieu Williams. [2], iv, 211, [1], 16 p.; 17 cm. (7 inches). Brownish-red cloth with blind-stamped border and decorative center medallion on each board. Pale yellow endpapers printed in black with the contents of the series edited by G. Phillips Bevan. 16 pages of publisher's advertisements follow text. Front board also bears a blind stamp reading: Friends Library of Germantown. Front pastedown bears bookplate of the Germantown Friends' Free Library, with inscription noting that the book was withdrawn from that library and presented to Joseph H. Price in Jan. 1936. The title page also bears a faint ink stamp and a perforated stamp of the same library, with an accession number stamped at the foot of p. iii. Back pastedown bears remains of book pocket. This volume in the British Manufacturing Industries series discusses the state in the 1870s of the mining of gold, silver, lead, copper, tin, iron, and other metals, and of coal, in particular the techniques used in working coal mines and the current safety methods found in those mines, as well as the quarrying of building stones. Of particular interest is the lengthy section on the manufacture and use of gunpowder. In Fair Condition: cloth over spine is lacking; both boards are detached but present; fore-edges of boards are rubbed; back free endpaper is detached but present; pages are otherwise clean and tight. A scarce book from this important late 19th-century work on industry in Great Britain.. Fair.