2 Michael Faraday first editions are documented on this shelf, from Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839) to The Chemical History of a Candle (1861) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Michael Faraday title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Experimental Researches in Electricity — 1839 · Richard and John Edward TaylorIssued as three separate volumes over sixteen years, each with its own title-page date and, for volume III, a different imprint: volume I, 1839 (Richard and John Edward Taylor), collating vi, 574, [10] pages with 8 folding engraved plates; volume II, 1844 (Richard and John Edward Taylor), collating viii, 302, [2] pages with 5 engraved plates, 2 of them folding; and volume III, 1855 (Richard Taylor and William…. The individual papers collected here first appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1832-1852) and a handful of other periodicals; the three Taylor-imprint volumes are the first collected book edition of this material rather than its first appearance in print. Beginning around 1878, bookseller Bernard Quaritch issued close facsimile reprints of all three volumes after acquiring the remaining rights and sheets from the Taylor firm; these reprints keep the original 1839, 1844, and 1855 dates on their title pages even though they were printed decades later, with only the publisher's name changed to Bernard Quaritch. A genuine first-edition set must show Richard and John….
The Chemical History of a Candle — 1861 · Griffin, Bohn and CompanyFirst book-form edition of Faraday's six Royal Institution Christmas lectures, edited by William Crookes, who had serialized the lectures in his periodical Chemical News in early 1861 before Griffin, Bohn's London book edition appeared in March 1861. Illustrated throughout with in-text diagrams of Faraday's demonstration apparatus. Original British binding is green cloth with the title lettered in gilt on the spine. The London (Griffin, Bohn) book edition has precedence over the New York (Harper & Brothers) edition, also dated 1861. Countless later reprints -- Routledge, Chatto & Windus, and 20th-century school and juvenile editions -- shorten the book's original full title, A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which Is Added a Lecture on Platinum, to simply The Chemical History of a Candle, and reset the type; only the 1861 Griffin, Bohn (or, for the first American printing, Harper & Brothers) imprint under the….

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