The romance of modern mechanism : with interesting descriptions in non-technical language of wonderful machinery and mechanical devices and marvellously delicate scientific instruments, etc., etc. / by Archibald Williams ... ; with thirty illustrations.
Archibald Williams (1871 - 1934)
Category
Books
Date
1906
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258638
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 17-355, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., diagrams ; 8vo. Pencil price on front free endpaper: "1.50". 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 front pastedown: 'Hutchinson's / Book Store / 198-202 Union St., / New Bedford, Mass.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): firemen and fire engine; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped sailors in a boat, gilt lettering and red and white stamped diver on spine.
Makers and roles
Archibald Williams (1871 - 1934), author