A Manual of Electro-Metallurgy (1853) James Napier Cloth Hardcover Acceptable

Henry Carey Baird, 1853. Antiquarian cloth bound hardcover of A Manual of Electro-Metallurgy: Including the Applications of the Art to Manufacturing Processes by James Napier.

A foundational technical manual on electro-metallurgy, published in the decade after the process became industrialized. Printed for the American market, this book disseminated crucial, practical knowledge about using electricity to deposit metals like gold, silver, and copper. Electrotyping, derived from electro-metallurgy, is used for creating metallic printing plates that revolutionized book manufacturing.

Acceptable. Covers worn and soiled. Major chipping to the spine. Rear cover top edge chipped and torn. Damp staining to the edges of the interior pages. Page block edges stained and soiled. Binding okay. Page block square. Previous owner markings to the front fly leaf, and top of the title page. Interior pages crisp and readable. Antiquarian book with lots of wear and stains, but in okay reading condition.