A history of wonderful inventions
By: illustrated with numerous engravings on wood.
Contributors: Vizetelly, Henry, 1820-1894.; Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897.; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.; Vizetelly Brothers & Co.
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: Printing -- History.; Inventions -- History.
Other titles: Wonderful inventions; History of wonderful inventions :
Notes: T.p. printed in red, black and gold.

Wood-engraved plates are with signatures: "[JG or JC?]" [i.e. John Gilbert?] and "H. Vizetelly Sc.". Plates are hand-coloured.

Some wood-engraved illustrations within the text are signed: "H. Vizetelly." and some include the signature: "B. Foster".

Includes small wood-engraved decorative intials and tail-pieces, and one illustrated initial.

MASS copy: Bound in green diagonal wave-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  Upper cover blocked in gold with illustration similar to those within the text.  With yellow painted endpapers.  With prize label: "Tunbridge Wells  Classical & Commercial School ... A Prize Awarded to "George Abraham Spencer" for General Diligence in the First Form during the year ending June, 1854".  With bookplate: "Ex libris C. J. Peacock.".
Table of contents: value: The mariner's compass; value: Lighthouses; value: Gunpowder and gun-cotton; value: Clocks; value: Printing; value: The thermometer; value: The barometer; value: The telescope; value: The microscope; value: The steam-engine; value: The cotton manufacture; value: Steam navigation; value: The railway; value: Gas-light; value: The electric telegraph.