Author: BURNLEY, JAMES
Title: The Romance of Invention: Vignettes from the Annals of Industry and Science [ by the Author of "Fortunes Made in Business", "Two Sides of the Atlantic" , Etc.]
Description: London, Cassell & Company Limited. 1892, Fifth Thousand. Ill.: Browne, Gordon. Hardback, 125mm x 190mm tall (5" x 7.5" approx.). Pp viii, 376 + (xvi) Publisher's adverts, with a tissue-guarded frontispiece plate and five futher full-page illustrations by Gordon Browne. Handwritten Sunday School Prize inscription to front pastedown and a few minor external rubs, otherwise very good, in the original gilt & colour decorated, green cloth-covered, bevelled-edge boards/gilt titles.

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