A Treatise on the Steam-Engine from the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author:
RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT
Title:
A Treatise on the Steam-Engine from the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black 1846
Description:
Cr. 8vo, pp. xvi + 296; brown cl boards, spine lettered & decorated in gilt, front board decorated in arabesques & roll-tooled in blind; top & fore edge sl deckled, xv foldout plates to rear, illus.; VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscriptions in black ink to ffep; prev bookseller's sticker to front pastedown; binder's sticker to rear pastedown; moderate to heavy cracking to front & rear hinges, bdg sloppy; moderate cracking to front gutters; moderate creasing to pgs at gutters, esp to center & rear; light foxing throughout).
Keywords:
John Scott Russell trains train steam-engine steam engine 18th century enginerring