first edition Cloth
1879 · Chicago
by McCLURE, J. B.
Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, Publishers, 1879. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +. First edition. 8vo; 151, [2]pp + [5pp] publisher's ads; green cloth over board, gilt stamped title, black stamped decorative borders; gold colored endpapers; wood engraved portrait frontispiece of Edison with facsimile signature; 20 full-page illustrations plus illustrations in text; light rubbing of boards with some hand soiling, light age-toning of paper; very good plus. A biographical sketch of the life of Thomas Edison and his many inventions. Illustrations include sketches of the inventions.
(Inventory #: 1081)