Author: CRUSE, A.J.
Title: Match-Box Labels of the World with a History of Fire-making Appliances from Primitive Man to the Modern Match, Together with a History of the World's Labels. [ matchbox ]
Description: London, Robert Ross & Co. Ltd. 1946, First Edition. Boards, 8vo. Hardback, 140mm x 222mm tall (5.5" x 8.5" approx.). 127pp plus 24 plates. The 8 single-sided colour plates, which include the frontispiece, portray a total of 66 boxes, whilst the 16 double-sided b/w plates, have 99 further illustrations. Very good, in the original red-cloth-covered boards, and with the unclipped but dusty, colour-illustrated dust-wrapper. Good/Good.

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