Gutta percha, its discovery, history, and manifold uses.
A short London volume of 1851 from Benjamin L. Green describing gutta percha's discovery, history and uses, written for manufacturers, merchants and curious general readers at the height of the material's novelty. The wood engravings show moulded wares drawn flat-on or in profile — scalloped dishes with scrollwork and lattice borders, garland-rimmed trays, plain spouted invalid cups — rendered in fine parallel hatching that supplies ready-made ornamental roundels and utilitarian object silhouettes.
