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| The Strife of the Scales. An attempt to explain how the King's weigh-house and beams within the city of London came into the charge of the Worshipful Company of Grocers, by a past-Master of the Company, Session 1883-4. |
| London; Rixon & Arnold: 1905. The story of how, in days of Olde, the "lever" method of weighing gave way to the balance and scale, under supervision of the Grocer's Company. Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", 78 pages, several b/w illustrations; red cloth with gilt pictorial stamping; some cover soil, one "ding" to the edge of the front board; slight internal soil and toning. |
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London; Rixon & Arnold: 1905. The story of how, in days of Olde, the "lever" method of weighing gave way to the balance and scale, under supervision of the Grocer's Company. Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", 78 pages, several b/w illustrations; red cloth with gilt pictorial stamping; some cover soil, one "ding" to the edge of the front board; slight internal soil and toning.
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