The life, times, and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester : to which is added a reprint of his Century of inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon
A biography of Edward Somerset, second Marquis of Worcester, paired with a reprint of his 1663 Century of Inventions and Henry Dircks's technical commentary, published by B. Quaritch in London in 1865 for engineers and antiquarians interested in early steam power. Wood-engraved plates mix lettered apparatus diagrams twin boiler vessels, stopcocks, furnaces, siphons and standpipes with topographical views of Welsh churches and castles, offering clean line work for schematic and archival collage.
