A fantastic bound volume of original Victorian patents.

HMSO, 1890. Hardcover in navy blue buckram, various paginations [roughly 300 pages].

Full patent documents (bound without their blue sheet covers) for almost one-hundred designs arranged in numerical order (not including the voided designs noted on first page).  The majority are fully illustrated with accompanying fold-out plans.

Very varied subject matter as shown in full contents below, including photography, firearms, textiles, clothing, etc.  A fascinating snapshot of late Victorian engineering.

Heavy volume (overseas buyers contact me for P&P quote).

Unobtrusive tape repair to two folding sheets, otherwise very good condition.

Contains the following 96 patents with many fold-out diagrams:

3205 - An Entrenching Tool - Rt. Hon. Robert Harris Carnwath Dalzell (on behalf of Arthur Edward Dalzell)

3207 - Means of Rendering Pencils Available for Taking and Retaining Measurements - Howard Matravers Ashley

3211 - Improvements in Linings for Hats and Caps - David William Wall

3212 - Improvements in Casks and other Vessels to Facilitate their Tapping and in Apparatus for Corking the same - William Musselwhite

3213 - Improved Mechanical and Physical Indicating and Regulating Apparatus - William Edward Ayrton and John Perry

3215 - An Improved Specific or Remedy for the Cure of Indigestion, Sea-sickness, and other Similar Ailments - Benjamin Samuel Sparrow

3216 - Improvements in and relating to Circular Heel Plates and Tips for Boots and the like - William Henry Archer

3217 - Improvements in Carpet Beating Machines - Joseph Tullidge

3218 - Improvements in the Manufacture of Looking Glasses - George Smith Bigley

3220 - Improved Machine for Cutting Patterns of Lace and other Fabrics - Herbert Henson

3222 - Improved Process of Treating Plates and the like for Facilitating the Removal of Galvano Plastic Deposits Contained Thereon - Alfred Julius Boult

3226 - Improvements in the Manufacture of Metal Cases, Drums, or Receptacles for Cement and other Substances - Henry Harris Lake

3227 - Improvements in Saddles for Velocipedes - Louis von Lubbe

3228 - Improvements in or relating to Corrugating, Shearing, Punching, and similar Machines - Joshua Bigwood, Theodore Charles Bigwood and Henry Malcolm Bigwood

3229 - Improvements in and connected with Sets of Weights - Charles Frederick Clark

3233 - Improvements in or connected with Loom Pickers - William Edwin Heys

3235 - Improved Stands and Attachments for Hanging Brushes - Charles Frederick Bourne

3236 - Improved Appliances for and Means of Facilitating and Securing Accuracy in the Grinding of Flats and Doffer and in the Adjustment of Flats and the Bends on which they Work to the Cylinder in Revolving Flat Carding Engines - John Bullough

3239 - Improvements in Apparatus Employed for Damping Warps in Looms for Weaving - James Grime and Thomas Atkinson

3241 - Window Fastening - Thomas Day

3244 - Improvements in Valve Seatings of Pumps - John Edward Rogers

3245 - An Improvement in Pen Holders - Alfred Harvey Smith

3248 - Improvements in Stop Cocks and Bib Cocks - John Henry Johnson

3254 - Improvements in Indicating Bolts or Fasteners - Edwin Showell

3255 - Improvements in or relating to the Lathes and Shuttle Boxes of Looms - Thomas Taylor and Thomas Dawson

3259 - An Improved Ruler - Stephen Buy

3264 - Improved Imitation Beaver and other Furs - Bernard Koppel and Josef Felber

3266 - Improvements in Brackets or Supports for Domestic and other Purposes - James Foster

3268 - Improvements Applied to Fire-arms - Victor Clair and Benoit Clair

3269 - An Improved Picking Motion for Looms Employed in Weaving - John Stanhope and Herbert Stanhope

3272 - Improvements in or relating to Electric Motors - William Phillips Thompson (agency)

3274 - Improvements in or relating to Blocking Machines for making Bobbin Blanks - Thomas Harrison Brocklebank

3275 - Improvements in or relating to Apparatus Employed in Reading and Punching Jacquard Cards - Charles Adam Town

3278 - Improved Spring Mattress - William Dryden Glen

3279 - Improvements in Appliances for Producing Flashing or Continuous Lights (at pleasure) for Photographic, Scenic, or other purposes - Frederic William Hart

3282 - A Right and Left Hand Bolting Lock Combined - George Grant

3283 - Improvements in Supports for Umbrellas or like Coverings or Attachments for Carriages or other Vehicles - Charles Henry Butlin

3285 - Improvements in the Construction of Railway of other Milk Cans and similar Articles - Francis Habgood Freeth and Sidney Job Pocock

3287 - Improved Means of Preventing the Spilling of Grease from Candles and the like - Arthur John Fuzzey

3288 - Improved Apparatus for Grinding Cement and Analogous Materials - Edward Prime

3292 - An Improved Manufacture of Caliber Rings and Dies - Wilhelm Lorenz

3293 - An Improved Liquid Meter - Henry Conrad Ahrbecker

3294 - Improvements in Apparatus for Peeling, Cutting, Grating, Coring, and slicing Potatoes, Vegetables and Fruits - William Herbert Dawson

3295 - Improvements in Brake Shoes for Railway Car Wheels - Samuel Hatt and George Sanderson

3296 - Improvements in Gang Ploughs to be Drawn Direct behind a Traction Engine or other Motive Power - David Greig Senr. and Richard Holgate Shaw

3297 - Apparatus for Facilitating Elementary Instruction in Arithmetic, Reading, and other Subjects - Joseph Kerner

3298 - An Improved Apparatis for Crushing or Pulverizing Ores and other Substances - Thomas Rowland Jordan

3301 - Improvements in Quick Firing Guns and in Cartridges therefor - Robert Southworth Lawrence

3302 - Improvements in Chairs - John Harrington and John Hopper

3303 - Improvements in or relating to the Game of Hop-scotch - James Frederick Openshaw and William Arthur Wilkinson

3304 - Improvements in Fastenings for Lamp Shades or Globes - Philip Henry Jauncey

3310 - Improvements in Window Frames and Sashes - James Young

3318 - Improvements in or relating to Handles for Chests, Trunks, and such like Articles - Edwin Bagnall

3321 - An Improvement Applicable to Ring Throstle Frames and Ring Doubling Frames used for Spinning and Doubling Cotton and other Fibrous Substances - James Dickinson

3326 - An Improved Testing Machine - Robert Henry Smith

3330 - Improvements in or relating to Incandescent Electric Lighting - John Hartness

3331 - Improvements in Engines and Motors Actuated by Products of Combustion - Moses James Adams

3333 - Production of Triphenylmethan Colours Dyeing with the Aid of Mordants - Thomas Richard Shillito

3338 - Improvements in the Manufacture of Common Salt, and in the Construction of Appliances for Effecting the Same - Victor Cornet and Alice Jones / Augustus Collingridge

3340 - Improvements in Lamp Reflectors - George Louis Lavender

3343 - Improvements in Pulley Blocks, Snatch Blocks, or Bearings for Travelling or Running Chains, Ropes, Wires or Rods - Thomas Deer

3347 - Improvements in Books for Exhibiting and Selling Photographs - Henry William Taunt

3350 - An Improved Instrument for Measuring Currents of Electricity - Sir Charles Stewart Forbes

3351 - Improvements in Apparatus for Reducing, Mixing, and Dissolving Fibrous or other Materials - John Clayton Mewburn

3352 - An Improved Method of Covering Plates, Dishes, and the like, so that they are Made Air-tight - August Wilke

3353 - A Machine for Stamping and Perforating Metal, Leather, Cloth, Paper, and the like - Ernst Tietze

3354 - Improvements in and relating to Blocks or Bricks Composed of Siliceous Materials - Archibald Campbell Ponton and Benjamin Lewin Mosely

3355 - Improvements in and relating to Wall Tiles or other Wall Linings - Walter Hubbard and Benjamin Lewin Mosely and Joseph Sinclair Fairfax

3357 - Improvements in the Process of Manufacturing Artificial Stone - Henry Harington Leigh

3359 - An Improved Method of Securing Stoppers and Corks to Bottles and the like - Catherine Tassell

3360 - Improvements in Aerial Machines - John Craig

3362 - Improvements in Shavings for Vinegar Generators and for Clarifying Beer - Rudolph H. Herder

3363 - Improvements in the Manufacture of Incandescence Electric Lamps - John Wigham Edmundson

3365 - Improved Apparatus for Facilitating the Laying of Electrical Conductors, Chiefly Designed for Military Purposes - Leo Kamm

3366 - Improvements in Gas Lamps - Francis Herbert Wenham

3369 - A Coating Machine for the Preparation of Gelatine Dry Plates - Marcus Kattentidt

3370 - Improvements in Adjustable Wrenches for Bicycles and other Purposes - Augustus Lehmann

3371 - Means of Utilising the Jambs and Lintel of a Fireplace for Cooking Purposes - Howard Matravers Ashley

3372 - Improved Fastening for Mail Bags, Boxes, Vans, and other Objects, and Stamping and Cutting Tools therefor - Joseph Hecq

3373 - An Improved Galvanic Ear Appliance - Alexander Darling Munro

3374 - An Improved Artificial Ear Drum - Alexander Darling Munro

3376 - Improvements in Apparatus for use in Cleaning, Whitewashing, Staining, and Painting Ceilings - Joseph Becker and Walter Winsloe

3377 - Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Intercepting Horse Droppings or the like - John Slow

3378 - An Improved Method and Apparatus to Form Disintegrated or Loose Material such as Sugar, Loam, Clay, Cement, Mortar, Turf, and similar Material into Compact Bodies - Carl Guttler

3380 - Improvements in Sheaves for Pulley Blocks - Howell Pearshal Terry and George William Blair

3382 - Improvements in Fire Escapes - Charles John Reynolds

3386 - An Original Apparatus for Feeding and Automatically Controlling the Feed of all Burning Oils and Spirits to Lamps and Stoves by Means of which One or More may be Fed from One Reservoir, also the Various Modes of Application of same - John Henry Webb

3387 - Improvements in the Method of and Means for the Unloading and Delivery of Coal, and also for its Delivery In and Out of Store - William Lloyd Wise

3389 - Improvements in Mail Bags, Satchels, Travelling Bags, and the like - Thomas Canby Chappell and Everett Dazetta Moore

3390 - Improvements in Mail Bags and in Hermetic Mouth Pieces for the same - Thomas Canby Chappell and Everett Dazetta Moore

3391 - Improvements in Apparatus for Charging Gas Producers and Gas or Shale-Oil Retort Furnaces with Hot Residual Coke - George Robertson Hislop

3393 - Improvements in Files or Binders for Letters and the like - John Snell Chenhall and James Warne Chenhall

3394 - An Improvement in Chronometric Hand-stamps - Warren Butler Martindale

3395 - Improvements in Mechanical Musical Instruments - Friedrich Ferdinand Pietschmann

3398 - Improvements in what are known as Instantaneous Photographic Shutters - James Heber Taylor

3399 - Improvements in Apparatus Employed in the Cutting of Weft Pile Fabrics - Oscar Drey