Re-backed with brown leather spine with black title plate, gilt banding and lettering. Brown patterned boards with the gilt emblem of the society of Writers to the Signet.

Industrial Chemistry.- Dumas (Jean-Baptiste)Traité de chimie, appliquée aux arts, Atlas vol. only, 148 engraved plates (numbered 1-147), spotting, occasional foxing, contemporary half calf, richly gilt spine in compartments.

This book is becoming increasingly rare as people are breaking it so as to frame up the book’s many illustrations.