Description and plans of lights for lighthouses according to the catadioptric system of Augustin Fresnel and the Holophotal system and other improvements : manufactured by Chance Brothers and Co., Glass Works, near Birmingham.
Robert Stevenson and Son,former owner.StEdNL
[Birmingham? : s.n.],
1855.
Library copy interleaved with blank leaves, some of which are annotated, and at the back there are 3 leaves of text dated August 1860 which contain details of the new tariffs of Chance & Co. for their lighthouse apparatus.
Manuscript inscription on the recto of the front free endpaper "[Robt.?] Stevenson [????] Edinburgh". Manuscript inscription at the head of the title page "Alan Stevenson, Thomas Stevenson and Charles Alexander Stevenson's improvements".
Chance Brothers and Co.
Lighthouses
Catadioptric systems.
Holophote.
England Birmingham.