A dictionary of mechanical science, arts, manufactures, and miscellaneous knowledge. . Comprising the pure sciences of mathematics, geometry, arithmetic, algebra,&c.; - the mixed sciences of mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, and astronomy; - experimental philosophy; - the fine arts; - agriculture, and its implements; - manufactures, and their various processes; - commerce and domestic economy; - natural history; - with biographical and historical notices of eminent men, who have adorned science by their inventions and discoveries. Illustrated with many hundred engravings. Seventh edition. By Alexander Jamieson, Ll.D.
Alexander Jamieson
Category
Books
Date
1831
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3074930
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([2],2,iv,544; [2],545-1066 p.), [87] leaves of plates : ill., maps . fol. 2 vols. bound in one. This copy has no titlepage for vol. 2; with a final advertisement leaf, vol. 2. Bookseller’s ticket on pastedown: J. Rogers, bookseller, and binder, Stafford. Provenance: endpaper inscribed: "This book belongs to William Bellingham"; followed by verse on lending and looking after books; inscribed beneath verse: "Knightley, Eccleshall Febry 8th 1888 / My Lord, I beg your acceptance of my father's book as a souvenir of our family's tenancy on the farm at Knightley. I remain my Lord, / Your humble servant, James Bellingham. / The Right Honble The Earl of Lichfield Shugborough Hall Staffordshire" [i.e. Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1825-1892)]. Binding: nineteenth-century calf; gilt roll border; gilt tooled spine; gilt lettered on spine: jamieson's Dictionary of science.
Makers and roles
Alexander Jamieson