A treatise on magnetism, forming the article under that head in the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. By David Brewster, K.G.H. L.L.D. F.R.S. Vice-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and corresponding member of the Institute of France.
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
Category
Books
Date
1837
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3149183
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 365, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm. (8vo.) Provenance: author's presentation copy. Manuscript inscription on front endpaper: "To Miss Fielding [sic] from the Author" [i.e. to either Caroline Feilding (1808-1881) or Horatia Feilding (1810-1851), from the author Sir David Brewster]. Binding: publisher's green cloth; gilt lettered on spine, including price 6s.; untrimmed edges.
Makers and roles
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), author