Invention and Discovery
TEMPLE, R., C., TEMPLE
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, 1892
Stock code: 12642
Price: £30.00
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 13 full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, gilt back, gilt top, patterned endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's original pictorial binding.
Engaging accounts of over 120 major inventions and discoveries told with characteristic late Victorian aplomb. Scarce, especially in this condition.