| Description | There is a paper label written by James Watt jr. : 'Professor Robison's Essays upon Steam & the Steam Engine with Mr Watts Notes 1814, published in 1822.'
An additional note by James Watt jr. reads as follows:
' The Articles Steam & Steam Engines written for the Encyclopaedia Britannica By the late John Robison LLD, FRS.E &c Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh and Forming Part of Dr. Robison's Works edited by David Brewster LLD. FRS. L & E
With Notes & Additions by James Watt LLD FRS. L & E
Member of the National Institute of France, and of the Batavian Society of Rotterdam
and a letter on some Properties of Steam by the late John Southern Esq.
Edinburgh. Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. For John Murray, Albemarle St. London. 1818.'
The volume is not bound. |