1856 Memorials of the Lineage, Early Life, Education and Development of the Genius of James Watt

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound

The first edition of George Williamson's biography of Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist James Watt, known for creating the Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution.

Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and fifteen further plates, including folding tinted plates, a folding diagram, and a folding map. 

Collated, complete.

Rebound in full calf, with endpapers renewed. College library stamps to recto of frontispiece and to title page, with pages otherwise clean and bright.

A wonderful example of this impressively illustrated biographical work.