Author: Benedict, Henry H.
Title: The Coal Dealer's Ready Reckoner
Publication Information: New Haven: From Press of Hoggson & Robinson 1870
Call #: TN 151 .B45
Book Size: 20 cm (H); 12.5 cm (L); 1.5 cm (spine)
Cover: brown, and comparatively plain; cover had "Coal Dealer's Ready Reckoner" in gold in center; sand grain cloth cover; bevelled edges of cover, which became a major feature in book production
Inside Book Covers: plain
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations:
Comments:
- this text is largely charts for calculations
- Note the number and variety of fonts on the cover page
- There are a lot of advertisements in the back - for paints, oils, brushes; for bar, pig, and sheet iron; Herring's patent safes, Fairbanks' standard scales; and so on
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 19th-Century American Text Production
- Mining
- Advertising
