Microscopical Mounts and Mounters

Description:

The author has collated forty years of notes acquired during his own research and handling of slides to produce this valuable reference book. After a short preface and introduction, the bulk of the book is an alphabetical listing of mounters including individual mounters (amateurs and professional) and firms that made slides. These listings include biographical aspects of the mounters, addresses and references to other works where appropriate. Useful entries on general aspects of slides and their subjects are also included on topics such as diatoms, diamond writing, fluid mounts etc. The text is complemented by facsimiles from pages of some of the older makers’ catalogues. The text entry for each mounter is cross referenced with the colour plates in the second half of the book, which comprises 60 full page colour plates showing almost a thousand microscope slides at nearly natural size from a wide range of mounters.

Condition

Vg.