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Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Large Hardcover Book in Very Good +Condition. No dust jacket. One of the "Great Ages of Man" Series. Books in this series are elegantly and elaborately illustrated in full color and provide a concise history of the culture, peoples, society, religion, art, technology, demographics, and more, of various ages of civilization, from ancient, nomadic, primitive societies to more highly developed civilizations. This volume provides a comprehensive and extensive survey of the advances of the 19th and early 20th Centuries-- the automobile, aircraft, in science and technology, in health and longer lives, improvement in working conditions, in education, housing, and more. Bound in gray buckram over spine with gilt tiles, pictorial cloth boards with illustration of the highlights of the age of progress--birth of the airplane and automobile, a spidery new architecture, political upheaval, a glittering new social life. Clean, lightly rubbed, unmarked, tight and solid, square. Spine covering lightly sunned around spine head and heel. Faint scrape to lower front corner. Internals are very clean and completely free from any markings, no creasing. 192 pages with Chronologies of events significant in the history of the Age of Progress, 1850-1914; Bibliography and Index. Includes an Album of the Era. 11 x 9 inches. Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, 1966.
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