The Microscope, or Descriptions of Various Objects of Especial Interest and Beauty

An informative work in smart full calf binding with gilt tooling, featuring colour plates. In full calf binding, withbinder's stamp to front blank: Relfe Brothers, London. An informative and illustrated guide to the contemporary microscope. Featuring a colour frontispiece and seven further unlisted colour plates, in addition to monochrome vignette illustrations throughout. Collated from a copy held by the University of East Anglia Library, complete. Penned by Mary Ward. Detailed with gilt tooling to board extremities, board edges, and spine as well as marbled endpapers and text block edges, withbook ribbon. Prize giving bookplate of Heversham Grammar School to front paste down. Bound in full red calf. Externally, very smart. Moderate bumping and rubbing to extremities. Very slight fading to spine. Prize giving bookplate to front paste down. Slight warping to front board. Internally, firmly bound. Mild strain between frontispiece and title page and rear blanks. Pages generally bright and clean, with occasional odd spot throughout. Moderate age toning to front blanks. Very Good Indeed.