Item Description: | "Appendix: containing a concise account of the invention and improvement of steam engines / extracted from Dobson's edition of the encyclopedia, with notes and additions by the author ; to which is added Mr. John Stevens' letters on the author's improvements, with the answers thereto": p. [81]-139. - Article XVIII, Useful inventions by different persons (p. 74-80) not included in this edition. - Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 19121.2. - Issued also under title: The abortion of the young steam engineer's guide. - OCLC, 16265489. - Reproduction of original from Beinecke Library, Yale University. - Yale University Beinecke Library's copy imperfect: plates wanting |