FARADAY, Michael. JONES, Bence

The life and letters of Faraday

London: Longmans, Green, 1870. Two volumes. 8vo. vi, [iv], 427, [1]; [viii], 499, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With steel engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved plates, and numerous text engravings. Publisher’s cloth, worn, spines badly sunned; internally good. With the bookplate of Charles R. C. Tichborne (1836-1905). Item #16446

First edition of this early biography of Faraday by Jones (1814-1873), physician and chemist, secretary of the Royal Institution, and friend of Faraday. Included in the work is an extensive amount of material drawn from Faraday’s letters and his research notebooks.

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