A treatise on optics / by Sir David Brewster.

  • David Brewster
Date:
[1850?]
  • Books

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London : Printed for Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, [1850?]

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3 unnumbered pages, vi-x, 2 unnumbered pages, 383 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 17 cm (12mo).

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New edition.

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Includes index
The engraved title-plate is a later state of the first edition's
The text is a reprint from stereotypes, omitting series titles
Collation includes blank leaf after p.x
Colophon: "London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-Street-Square"
Publisher and printer traded under the above names 1841-56 and 1848-53 respectively; Wellcome copy has contemp. ownership inscription dated 25 Aug. 1852.
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: MOBS Note: Binding: orig. blind-stamped green ripple grain cloth, gilt spine lettering "Optics By Sir D. Brewster Cabinet Cyclopædia", series advertised on pastedowns. Title inscribed "Lucy Anne Rathbone August 25th. 1852"

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