Scarce 1842 Works Electro-gilding Galvanising Electrotypes Silvering Metalwork

  

Familiar Instructions in the Theory and Practice of the Beautiful Art of Electro-Gilding & Silvering; By Means of Which Any Person Can Give Gold or Silver Coverings t Spoons, Knives, Watch Cases, Ornaments, Trinkets, Medallions &c, At Pleasure : Also Instructions in the Formation and Theory of Voltaic Batteries, Illustrated by Numerous Engravings. Walker : Electrotype Manipulation: Being The Theory, and Plain Instructions in the art of Working with Metals, by Precipitating them from their Solutions, through the Agency of Galvanic or Voltaic Electricity. George Knight & Sons, London 1841. Contemporary half calf, gilt bands to otherwise plain spine. The first mentioned work is very scarce: COPAC records only 1 copy in the UK - at Glasgow.

Worldcat adds a copy of the 1st edn at Illinois.