A Short History of the Steam Engine

First Edition. 8vo., red clothbound hardback gilt; [xvi] + 255pp, indexed, portrait frontis + 9 other b/w plates (one foldout) plus 78 text figures. Clean copy with no previous ownership inscriptions or annotation. Foxing to edges, endpapers, prelims and occasionally throughout, slight corner creasing to frontis and title page, a few handling marks to covers, spine rather faded. Overall a Good, Sound copy.