Front cover image for Knight's American mechanical dictionary: : being a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes, and engineering; history of inventions; general technological vocabulary; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts.

Knight's American mechanical dictionary: : being a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes, and engineering; history of inventions; general technological vocabulary; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts.

Edward H. Knight, John M. August Will (Illustrator), S. A. Shearman (Illustrator), Frederick A. Schell (Illustrator), A. Faguet (Illustrator), Harley (Engraver), Émile Thérond (Engraver), Asa Coolidge Warren (Engraver), Speir (Engraver), Harell (Engraver), La Plante (Engraver), J.B. Ford and Company (Publisher), Welch, Bigelow & Co (Printer), University Press (Cambridge, Mass) (Printer), Van Ingen & Snyder (Engraver)
Print Book, English, 1874
J.B. Ford and Company., New York:, 1874
Blank subscription forms (Publishing)
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 28 cm.
950905381
Salesman's sample, consisting of specimen pages and most of the plates. Text and plates are followed by four pages of publisher's prospectus and twenty unnumbered, ruled pages, interleaved with twenty-two blank pages of purple paper, for recording subscribers' names
Some illustrations by John M. August Will, S.A. Shearman, Frederick A. Schell, and A. Faguet. Engravings by Joseph S. Harley, Émile Thérond, Asa Coolidge Warren, Speir, Harell, Van Ingen-Snyder, and La Plante
Copyright 1872 by J.B. Ford & Company
"Welch, Bigelow Co. University Press. Cambridge, Mass."--Title page verso