Vol. 2 has title: The applications and uses of vulcanized gum- elastic, with descriptions and directions for manufacturing purposes

Page numbering is inconsistent throughout both volumes, with some numbers omitted from pagination sequence without loss of text

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

SCDIRB copy 39088000976175 has v. 1 and v. 2 bound together

SCDIRB copy has handwritten inscriptions on front free endpaper: Austin G. Day, Seymour, Conn.; AGD 120 Broadway, New York. ["In 1854 Austin G., Julius, and Henry P. Day and Thomas Sault founded the A.G. Day Company in Seymour, Connecticut, which manufactured small household and office items from molded hard rubber, particularly pen and pencil holders" --From the H.P. & E. Day, Inc. Records online finding aid, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, viewed 17 Sept. 2012]

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Herald of Science no. 47, Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

SCDIRB copy has a later gilt-tooled burgundy half-leather binding with embossed burgundy cloth boards, raised bands, and marbled endpapers

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