Item #002137 Experimental Researches in Electricity. Michael FARADAY.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.

The first edition of Faraday's papers in original publisher's bindings

Experimental Researches in Electricity.

London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1839.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002137

Richard and John Edward Taylor, [Vols. I-II], Richard Taylor and William Francis [Vol. III], 1839, 1844, 1855. Three volumes. 8vo (226 x 142 mm). Vol. 1: vi, 574, [10] pp., including publishers ads. at rear and 8 folding engraved plates. Vol. 2: viii, 302, [2] pp., including half title and 5 engraved plates (2 folding). Vo. 3: viii, 588 pp., folding lithographed plate and 3 engraved folding plates. All in original publishers bindings. Vols. I-II: green fine-diaper cloth with central blind-stamped vine-leaf and flower figures on front and back covers (not uniform), gilt-lettered spines (no vol.-number on the spine of Vol. I); Vol. III: original blue-green fine-diaper cloth, gilt-lettered spine (boards and extremities rubbed, corners bumped, top spine of Vol. II chipped, spine of Vol. III with faint shelf-mark), yellow endpapers. Text generally clean with only little age-toning and occasional minor spotting, some foxing to plates. Provenance: Institute of Actuaries (small stamp to title-page of Vol. II); Haileybury College Science Library (bookplate to front pastedown and shelf-mark to first flyleaf of Vol. III). A very good set, very rare in its original publishers cloth. ----

PMM 308; Horblit 29; Norman 762, Sparrow 62, Jeffreys 297. - First edition in book form. "Between 1832 and 1852 Faraday published twenty-nine series of papers in the Philosophical Transactions under the title "Experimental researches in electricity"; it was through these papers that his major discoveries relating to electricity and magnetism were first published ... These papers, along with pertinent papers and letters published in other scientific journals, were collected in three volumes published in 1839, 1844 and 1855. The collection encompasses the entire range of Faraday's remarkable achievement, including his discovery of electromagnetic induction, his demonstration of the identity of all formes of electricity, his first general theory of electricity as a function of interparticulate strain, and the last series of researches on magnetism, containing the germ of modern field theory, in which Faraday rejected his earlier model of the transmission of magnetic energy in favor of one locating the manifestion of magnetic energy in the field surrounding the magnet." (Norman 762).
The author's epoch-making discovery of the means to generate electricity by electro-magnetic induction is the principle behind the dynamo and the transformer, and the foundation of the modern electrical industry. The experiments that Faraday recorded in this paper marked the begining of his "great series of investigations into electricity" (PMM), through which he established the identity of all types of electricity, the magnetic properties of the earth and his theory of "lines" or "tubes" of magnetic force, "the starting point for the revolutionary theories of Clerk Maxwell and later of Einstein" (PMM).
The original publisher's bindings are always disparate in colour and/or type of cloth. The first two volumes have a brownish-green colour of the fine-diaper cloth whereas the third volume is bound in a rather bluish-green cloth which eighter has a pebble- or a diaper texture. The Quaritch-reprints are bound in a pebble-textured cloth.

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