The romance of modern electricity : describing in non-technical language what is known about electricity and many of its interesting applications / by Charles R. Gibson … ; with thirty-four illustrations and thirteen diagrams.
Charles Robert Gibson (1870-1931)
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257484
Summary
Bibliographic description
New & revised edition. 344, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Erased pencil price[?] and codes on front pastedown (illegible). Provenance: Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / Washington, D.C.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): electric locomotive; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped pylons, gilt lettering and red and white stamped cable car on spine.
Makers and roles
Charles Robert Gibson (1870-1931), author