London.Lockwood & Co. No date. Circa 1874. [xiv]. Approx 144 pp with irregular pagination; each section with number and sub-title " Lardner's Museum of Science " not bound in sequence. Black and white illustrations. BOUND WITH: COMMON THINGS EXPLAINED. Second series.with one hundred and nineteen illustrations. Collation as above. Black and white illustrations. Half bound green morocco, marble boards. Marble endpapers. 8vo. Some rubbing and bumping. One illustration has been coloured in. Prize-giving bookplate on front pastedown.