A treatise on new philosophical instruments for various purposes in the arts and sciences. With experiments on light and colours. By David Brewster, ...
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
Category
Books
Date
1813
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3231064
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 427, [1] p., XII leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo.) Provenance: crest armorial bookplate (lion statant on chapeau), anonymous, with motto 'Prest d'acomplir' [probably William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half-bound calf with brown cloth covers; gold-tooled spine; green leather spine label with gilt title: Brewster On New Instruments; Dahlia pattern marbled endpaper and bookblock edges. Binder's ink-stamp on verso of front free endpaper: 'Bound by Riviere' [i.e. bound by Robert Riviere (1808-1882), of London, between 1840-ca.1860].
Makers and roles
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), author