Period Lighting
London: Pelham Books, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #002637
166 p.p. B&W photos and illustrations throughout. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Sunning to top edge, light bumping to spine ends and corners. Library bookplate and pencil annotations to endpapers, ownership inscription to FFEP. Colour illustrated dust jacket is price clipped, lightly bumped at edges. This book is concerned with the evolution of early lighting devices and the development of later, more sophisticated light sources. It traces and records lighting inventions inventions from the Stone Age grease lamp through candles, the various improvements in oil lamps, and the use of gas and electricity.
Price: $30.00