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ELEMENTS OF ELECTRO-METALLURGY, OR THE ART OF WORKING IN METALS BY THE GALVANIC FLUID...
Smee, Alfred

- London : E. Palmer; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Longman 1841 - 8vo. - original cloth, all edges gilt. - xxviii, 163+(1), (ii), iv, 64, (2) pages. - Order Nr. 97794 - Price: $ 1,250.00

First edition. (Bridson & Wakeman A113 - "the first appearance of a key work on this subject"). Illustrated with electrotypes and woodcuts. The author was the inventor of the improved battery, which was the mainstay of electrotyping until replaced by the dynamo in the late 1870s. Illustrated with woodcuts. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Faint stain mark on front pastedown and endpaper.

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MATRIX 7. Limited to 960 copies of which this is one of the 110 special copies done in this manner. (Butcher 92).Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. Articles by Cleverdon on Morison and Gill, Dreyfus on French Resistance Printing, Carter on Victor Hammer, Cave on Golden Cockerel, Mortimer on Ornamented Types, Thompson on Gordon Craig, Crutchley on the Shape of Books and many others.