Discoveries and inventions of the Nineteenth Century. . . . by [TECHNOLOGY]. ROUTLEDGE, Robert - 1877.

London & New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1877. Thick 8vo. xii, 594 pp., plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Woodcut engraved frontisp., 7 woodcut-engraved plates, 1 chromolithograph plate of light spectra, all w/ tissue guards, 357 woodcut text engravings. Pictorial red publisher’s cloth, illustration and decorative lettering in red, black & gilt on front cover & spine, cover art photo of iron naval ship, spine of a Franklin stove (minor rubbing, edgewear to fore-edges, corners), still VG copy. Revised & expanded edition of this lavishly illustrated work documenting the wonders of the Victorian Age, including steam engines, railways, breech-loading rifles, explosive bullets, torpedoes, letterpress printing, optics, the electric telegraph, aquariums, rubber, and so much more.