Condition note: good quality used copy - contents in good condition, cover with minor defects.
A treasure trove of Victorian era engravings of all kinds of machinery, gears, motors - replete with pistons, valves, levers, dials - and incidental workers and crew. Presented by William Rowe in a sequence of sixty dense image montages - each filled with up to fifty or so details and comicly surreal juxtapositions. Featuring: compasses, drills, guns, hundreds of complex apparatuses, compound engines, gas regulators, governors, lathes, propelling devices, alarms and hundreds more complex machines.
Ideal for creating montages and machinery-themed designs, using original Nineteenth Century steel plate engravings - packed with detail.
