Author: HALE EDWARD E
Title: Stories of Invention, Told By Inventors and Their Friends
Description: London, Thomas Nelson. 1887, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: Engravings. brown cloth with gilt and black titling and pictorial decoration to upper board and spine, Stephenson's locomotive to spine, light rubbing to edges, mcorners just starting to fray,gift inscription to reverse of fep [ R F W Ashworth, from Lady Campbell, with all good wishes, Christmas 1887 ] , floral endpapers, front hinge cracked between fep and frontis, engraved frontis and a decorative title page as well as the full text title, 17 more full page illustrations, didactic accounts of the great inventors of the past from Archimedes down, includes; Archimedes, Friar Bacon and Virgilius, Cellini, Bernard Palissy, Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Robert Fulton, George Stephenson and the Locomotive, Eli Whitney, James Nasmyth, Henry Bessemer, 301pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Victorian Deluxe Non-Fiction Inventions Inventors Educational Collectable Archimedes Friar Bacon and Virgilius Cellini Bernard Palissy Benjamin Franklin James Watt Robert Fulton George Stephenson and the Locomotive Eli Whitney James Nasmyth Henry Bessemer


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