Dark covers with gilt lettering on spine, lightly bumped spine-ends. Sound binding. Clean pages. Library plate on inside front cover and library stamps on title-page and reverse of title, and occasionally in lower corners of text pages and on plates. Fold-out plates are clean and intact. Contents include: The Microscopic Features of Hardened Saturated Steels by Edward Hess; The Rusting of Iron by J Newton Friend; Iron Carbon and Sulphur by Donald M Levy; Constitution of Iron and Phosphorous Compounds by B Saklatwalla; The Function of Chromium and Tungsten in High-Speed Tool Steel by C A Edwards; Hardness of the Constituents of Iron and Steel by H C Boynton; Experimental Researches on the Cooling Power of Liquids on Quenching Velocities, and on the Constituents Troosite and Austenite by Carl Benedicks; Preliminary Results of Trials in Refining Iron and Steel by Means of Vapours of Metallic Sodium by Albert Hioth; Reprint of Joseph Hall's Pamphlet on the Discovery of Pig Boiling 1864. (I