Triumphs of Invention and Discovery. Questo articolo non è disponibile.Triumphs of Invention and Discovery

A smart copy of this detailed study on contemporary inventions and discoveries. With a frontispiece, vignette title page, and four plates. Collated complete. A collection of essays on contemporary inventions and discoveries, including: the printing press, steam engines, cotton manufacturing, lighthouses, the electric telegraph, silk manufacture, the miner's safety lamp, postage systems, and more. Written by Henry Hamilton Fyfe, a British journalist and writer who was editor of both the newspapers the Daily Mirror and the Daily Herald. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light spotting to the endpapers with an ink stamp to the front endpaper. Very Good.