The universe, Or, The infinitely great and the infinitely little / - by F. A. Pouchet; revised and edited by J. R. Ainsworth Davis.
Date
1902.
Collection
Creator(s)
F. A Pouchet, J. R Ainsworth Davis, Talwin Morris, David Rodger, Blackie & Son
Code
111416
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Grey endpapers.
Carmine cloth boards. Design (on front cover and spine only): in milky white, a frame curved inwards top and bottom, with five roses top and bottom and three rows of five butterflies in the middle under the gilt title in architectural sans serif capitals; at the base two facing songbirds outlined in white in front of a flattened heart blocked in gilt and an emerald green "peacock's crest" or reniform shape, the birds' tails decorated with gilt crescents. Matching spine without birds. Signed: TM (LO/C32). New edition. From the collection of David Rodger LO/C32. xvi, 576 pages, 7 color plates : illustrations, frontispiece ; 32cm
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