I have here for sale a book entitled HOPPUS'S TABLES FOR MEASURING or Practical Measuring Made Easy by way of a New Set of Tables which show at sight The Solid Content of Any Piece of Timber, Stone, etc., Either Square, Round, or Unequal-Sided, and the Value at any price per foot cube; Also, The Superficial Content of Boards, Glass, Painting, Plastering, etc., with copious explanations of the uses and applications of t he Tables.  Contrived to answer all the questions of Gentlemen and Artificers, the contents being given in Feet, Inches, and Twelfth Parts of an Inch.  With Observations concerning Measuring of Timber by several Dimensions by E HOPPUS A New Edition, Greatly Improved published by Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., Hamilton & Co., Dean & Son, etc., etc., London, undated, but the National Library of Wales think it was 1880 so I will go with that.  This edition includes a fold-out plate on the frontispiece, and some in-text b/w illustrations.

Black leather boards with gilt lettering on the front board.  Marks on the boards with wear to the top and bottom of the spine.  Light foxing to endpapers and a few pages.  Notes in crayon on the rear endpaper and light pencil notation on some pages.  All pages are firm and the book is in very good condition.  liii, 226 pages.  20.5 x 9 cm.

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