Patents UK - Minutes of Proceedings
£575
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
of the Commissioners of Patents, noting the subject of letters sent to the Master of the Rolls, plans regarding Library and Museum, meeting of Woodcroft with his Prussian equivalent, plan for gallery of the portraits of inventors, date of publication of Rules and Regulations, and Journal, date of report to Parliament, opening of Library, visit of Woodcroft to Patent Offices on the Continent, authorisation by Master of the Rolls of printing of Abstract Indexes, appointment of Woodcroft to be Superintendent of the Museum of Models, plans for the purchase of land and erection of a Patent Office and Public Free Library, &c., 1852-76, c.349 pp.., 4to, 19th century ruled calf ledger, worn, lacks spine, hinges weak