242pp, 8pp publisher's ads. Brown cloth-covered boards; blind embossed and gilt designs on boards and spine, gilt titles on front and spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine. Bumped corners and spine ends. Top text block edge dusty; all edges tanned, affecting page margins. Endpapers and prelims starting to fox and tan. Internally neat, clean and tight.
Compiled to supply the want felt by a large number of teachers in public and private schools of a Class Book for Junior Students. Its purpose was to convey, in clear and concise terms, general notions of all the principal divisions of Physical Science, illustrated copiously by diagrams, showing the forms and arrangements of apparatus and the manner of performing the most important experiments.
