8vo, orig. cloth, gilt, neatly rebacked preserving orig. spine. Vg. Withdrawn from an institutional library. Bookplate of the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of Oxford. Bowman (1874-1942) was Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy and Crystallography who donated his important book collection to the University. Also with signature of Charles Judson and a pencil note stating, 'The author was doubtless a clever man but he could not write a textbook'.