Experimental Researches in Electricity

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 Edward Taylor (volumes I-II) or Richard Taylor and William Francis (volume III) as the title-page publisher, not Bernard Quaritch.