Patents for Inventions. Abridgments of Specifications Relating to Printing, Including the Production of Copies on All Kinds of Materials, (exceptions Felted and Textile fabrics). ...Types, Sterotype, Blocks, Plates, Stone

London: The Great Seal Patent office/Georger E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1859. Thick Octavo. 631pp., (8) pp. advertisements with a tipped in notice before title page referring to pages 611* and 612*. These pages are abridged meaning they do not give examples of the patents but a reference to them. Samuel Pope discusses marbling paper, for bank notes, cheques, etc. "That the practice of counterfeiting of bank and other notes, etc. at this time appears very notorious, to the great detriment of the trade and commerce of this kingdom and that the making use of paper marbled with a margent for merchant notes.... preventing of counterfeiting.....William Roberts...A method of cutting and preparing prints or moulds....and several other new inventions in printing. Bound in blue paper covered boards printed in black, joints or hinges cracked but not broken through, some loss of paper to head and foot of spine, paper loss to edges with wear to corners. A rough binding but holding quite well. A good copy.