Hopkins, William J.

Telephone Lines and Their Properties [provenance: George A. Worcester]

New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. Hardcover. New Edition revised and enlarged. xvi, 272, [16] p., 6 leaves of plates: in-text drawings; 19 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped decoration on each board. Includes index. Publisher's advertisements on final 16 unpaginated pages. The plates are black-and-white photographs of distributing poles in Philadelphia and New York City, cable vault, and switchboards at the Broad Street exchange of Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Co., New York. The former owner, Geo. A. Worcester (b. 1852), in the 1890s and in 1901-2 was a selectman of Milford, N.H., where he had an electrical business and was also on the Board of Health and the board of the Milford Free Library, and was president of the Milford Historical Society. Salmon engraved bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Geo. A. Worcester, Milford, N.H. In Very Good+ Condition: spine and edges are rubbed; slightly cocked; clean and tight. Very Good +. Item #004295

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