Pp. 114, frontispiece, numerous text illustrations and figures, index; small cr. 4to; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1980. First edition thus. *A revised and expanded version of the author's 1974 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, as shown on BBC2. More
Pp. viii+40(last 3 blank); small f'cap 8vo; printed blue paper wrappers, stapled, edges and backstrip lightly faded and rubbed, the upper wrapper faintly creased, with inked initials at top fore-corner and bookseller's sticker below author's name, a couple of tiny splits to top edge of lower wrapper; Sir Isaac Pitman..... More
With a Biographical memoir. Edited by Alfred J. Frost. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. xxviii+564; Martino Fine Books, Mansfield Centre, CT, n.d.[1998]. *Originally published by Spon, in 1880. More
