MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. 21 plates. [2], xxix, [1], 425, [1]; xxiii, [1], 444 pages, including half-titles, plus 2 fly-titles for the plates, and errata slip in Volume 1; without publisher's catalogue. 2 volumes. 8vo, 212x139 mm, later 19th-century binder's cloth, gilt-lettered spines with shelf numbers, joints and cover corners worn, Volume 1 rear joint and Volume 2 front joint partly cracked; endpapers foxed, Volume 1 half-title and title crudely rehinged, few pencil marginalia, contents otherwise relatively clean. 19th-century bookplates of Owens College, Manchester, on pastedowns, their small embossed stamp on titles. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873