The romance of modern invention : containing interesting description in non-technical language of wireless telegraphy, liquid air, modern artillery, submarines, dirigible torpedoes, solar motors, airships, etc. etc. / by Archibald Williams … ; with twenty-five illustrations.
Williams, Archibald
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258629
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 345, [1] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "1.50 / net / XX / 1/8". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.' 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): ship and submarine; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped airship, gilt lettering and red and white stamped decoration on spine.
Makers and roles
Williams, Archibald, author