A practical view of the steam engine : illustrated by engravings of the largest machine in Scotland, constructed by Messrs. Claud Girdwood, & Co. for the coal mines of Sir John Hope, of Craighall, Bart. With an account of a mercurial statical dynamometer .... /
Milne, John.
Edinburgh : Printed by A. Balfour & Co. for John Boyd, 37 George Street, Edinburgh [and 4 other booksellers in London, Dublin and Paris],
1830.
John Milne is described on the title page as a 'teacher of architectural and mechanical drawing, Edinburgh'.
Added title page in French. English and French text on opposite pages.
All fully-catalogued copies contain only 2 plates numbered 'III' and 'IV'. It is possible that the book was published without plates 1 & 2, and the plates were issued separately.
With half title.
NLS copy also contains two photostats purporting to be of plates 1 and 2, taken from a photographs of an original, unidentified copy in Germany, as well a letter from 1935 from the librarian of the Patent Office Library in London offering to provide the photostats of the plates to the Royal Scottish Museum. The photostats were subsequently donated to NLS.
Steam-engines
Dynamometer.