The playbook of metals : including personal narratives of visits to coal, lead, copper, and tin mines; with a large number of interesting experiments relating to alchemy and the chemistry of fifty metallic elements.
John Henry Pepper (1821-1900)
Category
Books
Date
1869
Materials
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3188721
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 502, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Bookseller's pencil notes on pastedown with price: 2/6. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.N. / Long Barn" [i.e. Vita [Sackville-West] Nicolson, 1892-1962]. Purple ink stamp of former owner: J.F. Bird. Binding: green publisher's cloth, spine and upper cover decorated in gold and black. (Insect damage, pp. 333-352.)
Makers and roles
John Henry Pepper (1821-1900)