London : John Joseph Griffin & Co., 1853. Third edition, enlarged. Cabinet Edition of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Second Division : applied sciences. Octavo (195 x 135 mm), blind-stamped and lettered red cloth, gilt lettering to spine (a few marks and slight wear to head and foot); publisher's advertisements to endpapers, pp. 8 (publisher's catalogue, dated November, 1852), chromolithographed frontispiece with tissue guard, series title, pp. x; 321; [blank]; unnumbered leaf (catalogue for Photographic Apparatus, dated January, 1853), 97 - 112 (Griffin's Scientific Circular, March 1852, beingA descriptive and illustrated catalogue of photographic apparatus, microscopes, tool chests, cabinets of minerals, etc. offered for sale at the affixed prices by John Joseph Griffin and Company); illustrated with in-text vignettes; a few small stains to fore-edge, small loss to upper margin of title page, a very good copy. First published in 1841, and substantially enlarged in subsequent editio