Elements of Electro-Metallurgy

London: Longman, Brown ..., 1843. Second Edition. Revised, corrected, enlarged.. Original publisher's cloth.. Very good with some wear at the head and front joint.. 8vo, xxx, [1] - 338 pp. + an unusual frontis. printed on glazed paper and text illus..

This is the revised edition that is nearly twice the length of the author's original monograph. The purpose of the book is to explain the new technology and processes of the deposition of metals in solution to produce printing plates, i.e., electro-typing. Both the frontis. and the titlepage are printed on glazed paper from electro-type plates to illustrate the very fine detail available through the process. Smee covers all aspects of batteries and the electrical technology associated with them (direct current was crucial to the process). There are chapters on on duplicating illustrations in all kinds of media. A separate chapter on the duplication of daguerreotypes. Gartrell #967.