The universe; or, the infinitely great and the infinitely little / by F. A. Pouchet ... Illustrated by 270 engravings on wood from drawings by A. Faguet, Mesnel, and Emile Bayard and four coloured plates ...
Félix Archimède Pouchet (1800-1872)
Category
Books
Date
1895
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3231936
Summary
Bibliographic description
Twelfth edition. xvi, 564 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ; 8vo. Provenance: Inscribed as a prize for Francis Gerald Agar Robartes (7th Viscount Clifden (14 April 1883 – 15 July 1966) from Mortimer Vicarage, Eton preparatory school in Reading. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full smooth blue goatskin over boards, floral gilt roll to cover, spine gilt in compartments with three raised bands and two false, red spine label, marbled edges and endpapers.
Makers and roles
Félix Archimède Pouchet (1800-1872) Adrienne Faguet A. Mesnel Émile-Antoine Bayard (Paris 1837 - Cairo 1891)