The reason why
Subtitle: A collection of many hundreds of reasons for things generally believed, but imperfectly understood.  General science
Edition: 36th thousand.
Publisher: Houlston and Wright
Published: 1862
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Science; Miscellanea
Other titles: General science
Notes: Bibliography: p. [vi]

Fisher copy: Bound in faded purple diagonal wave publisher's cloth blocked in blind and gold; central pictorial vignette in gold on upper cover; lettering in gold on spine; lower cover in blind.