The Revealing Lens: Mankind and the Microscope

First edition, first impression. 208pp, with some black and white illustrations in text.  Deep clue cloth-covered boards, silvered motif on upper panel and silvered lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little worn, gently pushed in at spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a previous owner’s bookplate on the front free endpaper.  in its original, laminated dust jacket, not price clipped, a little shelf worn and gently rubbed and bumped on edges. 

The Revealing Lens is as much a series of ideas as it is a history of the microscope, which it examines from the dawn of consciousness of the unseen world together with its implications for science and for society.