Dredge James Editor (2 results)
Published by On letterhead of 'Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal Edited by William H. Maw and James Dredge' 35 & 36 Bedford Street Strand London W.C. 8 December, 1888
- Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United KingdomRichard M. Ford Ltd
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
£ 60.00
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Add to basket2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Letterhead in black and red ink. In fair condition, aged and worn, with creasing at head. A sensitive letter of condolence, beginning: 'Dear Willy | I was so shocked to hear on Thursday of the great loss you have sustained, and I hesitated to write to you, for letters of condolence are such empty useless th…ings. But on the other hand I dont want you to suppose that I feel indifferent to anything that touches you so closely & deeply. We have been such sympathetic friends for so long, that tho I did not know your father, he too seemed almost like an old friend.' The letter concludes with a rumination on mortality, Dredge finding sympathy 'not wholly useless but [] a poor thing in the presence of death'. Note: This letter derives from a collection of letters of condolence to the Forbes family on the death of William Forbes, father of Stanhope Forbes, founder of the Newlyn School of Art whose brother was "William".
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Electric Illumination. [two volume set]
Dredge, James, editor; Conrad Cooke, M. F. O'Reilly, S. P. Thompson, H. Vivarez; W. Lloyd Wise
Published by Engineering, London, 1885
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA]
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Mammoth technical & historic study of electrical lighting, mostly from the pages of the British journal "Engineering."; revised and amended. Includes information on basic electricity, voltaic arcs, mechanical production of electricity, generators in theory & practice, conduc…tors, carbons, arc lamps, the Jablochkoff Candle, incandescence-arc lamps, incandescent lamps, abstracts of patents; electrical measurement, standard works on electricity, photometry, the human eye, dynamometers, testing installations, recent dynamos & lamps. Volume one is undated, but circa 1882. Hardcover, two giant volumes bound in full maroon cloth, gilt titling. Professionally rebacked, original spines laid down, general wear & scuffing, rubbing, nicks, frayed corners & edges; new endsheets minor tanning to pages, ink name on flyleaf of volume two, damage (short tears, tanning, chips) to a few page edges. Text clean; xx, 693, cxc; xv, blank, 455, cccxciv; xiii pages; indices, figures. (The large roman-numbered sections in each volume are the patent abstract sections.) Size: Large Quarto.
