Edison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery Size:M: 50 x 40cm Inscribed below: 'WILLIAM VISCOUNT STAFFORD

Inscribed below: 'WILLIAM VISCOUNT STAFFORD See Burnet p- [illegible] Pub

Monogrammed 'HHT'

based upon the work of William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (1800-1877)

carrying a pair of bellows under his arm

Bound gospel originally in the monastery of S Mauritius Extra Muros

Edison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery Size:M: 50 x 40cm Inscribed below: 'WILLIAM VISCOUNT STAFFORDEdison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery, 1882 (1956). Thomas Alva Edison (1847 1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.