77/1814 [Electricity]. Maxwell, J.C. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Oxf., Clarendon Press, 1873, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 2 vols., XXIX,(3),425; XXIII,(1),444,(2),32(publ. advert.)p., 21 lithogr. plates, woodengr. ills., diagrams etc., orig. unif. blindst. giltlettered cl.

- Plates (sl.) foxed; hinges weak; vol. 1 upper hinge broken. Joints and spine-ends dam.; vol. 1 lacks half of backstrip.

= Both vols. with an errata-leaf (2p.) bound before p.1 and w. 32 publ. advert. pages at the end of vol. 2. Norman Library 1466; Poggendorff III, p.889; DSB IX, p.198ff: "(...) the aim of the Treatise was not to expound his theory finally to the world but to educate himself by presenting a view of the stage he had reached (...). He saw electricity not as just another branch of physics but as a subject of unique strategic importance (...)". From the library of J. Clay, with his stamp on htitle.