MARC Record from Library of Congress

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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$edcrmb
050 00 $aTS2145$b.E8
100 1 $aEvans, Oliver,$d1755-1819.
245 14 $aThe young mill-wright & miller's guide :$bin five parts, embellished with twenty five plates ... /$cby Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia.
246 3 $aYoung mill-wright and miller's guide
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bPrinted for, and sold by the author ...,$c1795.
300 $a[8], 160, ii, [1], 4-96, [1], 100-178, x, [1], 12-90, 10, [14] p., XII, XIV leaves of plates (2 folded) :$bill. (engravings) ;$c21 cm (8vo)
500 $aPart 5 by Thomas Ellicott.
500 $aSignatures: [A]⁴ B-X⁴ ²B-Z⁴ ³[A]⁴ ³B-³C⁴ ³D⁶ E-M⁴ chi1 ³N⁶ (³N6 blank).
510 4 $aSowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson,$c1180
510 4 $aEvans$c28644
510 4 $aESTC$cW29728
500 $aFolded plates signed: James Poupard, Sculpt. and J.J. Bury, Sculp.
505 0 $a(from title page) containing : Part I. Mechanics and hydraulics, shewing errors in the old, and establishing a new system of theories of water-mills, by which the power of mill-seats and the effects they will produce may be ascertained by calculation -- Part. II. Rules for applying the theories to practice, tables for proportioning mills to the power and fall of the water, and rules for finding pitch circles, with tables from 6 to 136 cogs -- Part III. Directions for constructing and using all the authors patented improvements in mills -- Part IV. The art of manufacturing meal and flour in all its parts, as practiced by the most skilful millers in America -- Part V. The practical mill-wright, containing instructions for building mills, with tables of their proportions suitable for all falls from three to thirty-six feet -- Appendix. Containing rules for discovering new improvements, exemplified in improving the art of thrashing and cleaning grain, hulling rice, warming rooms, and venting smoke by chimneys, &c.
500 $a"Subscriber's names"--P. [1-9] at end.
500 $aPublisher's advertisement and errata: p. [11-12] at end.
561 $aLC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. With the Force Collection bookplate.$5DLC
650 0 $aFlour mills$vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 $aEllicott, Thomas,$d1738-1799.
700 1 $aForce, Peter,$d1790-1868,$eformer owner.$5DLC
710 2 $aJefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
752 $aPennsylvania$dPhiladelphia.