Heroes of science : an account of the lives, sacrifices, successes, and failures of some of the greatest scientists in the world's history / by Charles R. Gibson, ... ; with 19 illustrations.
Charles Robert Gibson (1870-1931)
Category
Books
Date
1913
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3259204
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [3], 17-343, [9], 16 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Pencil number on front free endpaper: "3/9". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's red cloth; gilt stamped pictorial centrepiece on upper board: the Leaning Tower of Pisa; gilt stamped title and decorative panels and cream blocked decoration on upper board; gilt stamped illustration on spine: two men flying a kite in a thunderstorm; gilt stamped title and cream blocked decoration on spine.
Makers and roles
Charles Robert Gibson (1870-1931), author