A treatise on optics / by David Brewster.

London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green ... and John Taylor ..., 1831.

9 unnumbered pages, vi-x, 383 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts), tables ; 18 cm (8vo).

Engraved title-plate

Series title "The Cabinet Cyclopædia. Conducted By The Rev. Dionysius Lardner ... " bound before title proper; alternative sub-series t.p. "The Cabinet Of Natural Philosophy. ... " at end of volume.

Imprint of A. & R. Spottiswoode on half-title verso

Includes index

Collation includes initial blank leaf.

Copy 1 Note: With 8-page "Advertising Sheet Of The Cabinet ... " bound in. Binding: orig. purple glazed linen, printed paper spine label (" ... 6s."). Engraved armorial book-plate of William Bolton Cowley, with his signature on series titlepage.

Copy 2 Note: Binding: late-C19th half calf, Canterbury city arms gilt-stamped on upper cover. Ex Canterbury Philosophical & Literary Institution (stamp) and Canterbury Free Library.