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1923

Audels Carpenters And Builder Guide 1 4


Frank Duncan Graham - 1923
    The 1500+ pages contain more basic woodworking information than can be found in any other publication.

Baedeker's London And Its Environs 1900


Karl Baedeker - 1923
    Each successive edition included up to the minute revisions obtained by an army of local agents, the accuracy of whose work was constantly checked by members of the Baedeker family who travelled incognito throughout Europe checking the facts and figures that appeared in their books. This book brings to life, in astonishing detail, a complete picture of all that a visitor might wish to know about the world's greatest city at the close of the Victorian era. In over 500 pages with a fold out map of London and the surrounding countryside, numerous plans of notable buildings and 31 pages of coloured street plans, not only are all the major sites and attractions mentioned, but there is copious advice on etiquette; Recommended Shops from drapers and hosiers to pianoforte manufactures and trunk makers; Markets. There is also a history of London. Visitors are guided on a dozen tours by steamer and train to London's environs such as The Crystal Palace, Windsor Castle and as f

The New Testament: An American Translation


Edgar J. Goodspeed - 1923
    He taught for many years at the University of Chicago, whose collection of New Testament manuscripts he enriched by his searches. The University's collection is now named in his honor. He's widely remembered for his translations of the Bible: The New Testament: an American Translation (1923), & (with J.M. Powis-Smith) "The Bible, An American Translation" (1935), the "Goodspeed Bible". He's also remembered for his translation of the Apocrypha. That translation was included in The Complete Bible, An American Translation (1939).

This Singing World


Louis Untermeyer - 1923
    An anthology of verse chosen by Untermeyer for display in the theme 'This Singing World'. A sub-title within reads "An Anthology of Modern Poetry for Young People", though I don't believe he means children, so much as young adults. The book seems like an introduction to the various forms of modern poetry in the early 1920's, for young adults.