Watts, Henry; Muir, M. M. Patterson; Morley, H. Foster. Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry revised and entirely rewritten (4 volume set). London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892-1894. Third Edition. [11731]
Four volume set, complete. Brown leather spines with gilt titles, dark brown pebble cloth boards, marbled page edges and end papers, joints fine, bindings tight. Slight edgwear with some corner tips frayed, each 9 1/4 x 7 inches. xx, 752; xxii, 760; xii, 856; xii, 922 clean pp. Two of the volumes have the original large abbreviation bookmarks. Very good. Hardcover.
Henry Watts (1815-1884), b. London; English chemist. Although eminently qualified, a speech impediment kept him from gaining a professorship, so he devoted his energies to the literature of chemistry.
"The first edition of Watts's Dictionary of Chemistry...was completed in 1868; supplements were published in 1872, 1875, and 1879-81. A new edition, revised and entirely rewritten by Professor M. M. Pattison Muir and Dr. H. Foster Morely, was published 1888-94, 4 vols. 8vo. The dictionary contains excellent summaries of the facts and theories of chemistry, presented in an unusually readable and attractive form." - Philip Joseph Hartog, Dictionary of National Biography.
