The universe, Or, The infinitely great and the infinitely little / - by F. A. Pouchet; illustrated by 270 engravings on wood from drawings by A. Faguet, Mesnel, and Émile Bayard and four coloured plates.
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Chestnut endpapers.
Deep scarlet cloth boards. Design (on front cover and spine only): in gilt, a tree emerging from undulating waves in front of a rising sun, the title in large and small serifed capitals within the tree crown; embossed, in slightly darker red, fishes swimming from right to left in the water and birds flying from right to left above and below the tree's crown, both interspersed with small circles; spine with a climbing plant, water lilies and butterflies instead of the tree, fishes and birds. Signed: TM (LO/C32). 12 edition. From the collection of David Rodger LO/C32. Owner's label on front pastedown: "R. G. Todd"; also inscribed "R. G. Todd ... 1895" on flyleaf LO/C32. xvi, 564 pages, 4 color plates : illustrations, frontispiece ; 32cm
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