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EINSTEIN, Albert.

Relativity. The Special & The General Theory. A Popular Exposition.

Authorised Translation by Robert W. Lawson. With Five Diagrams and a Portrait of the Author.

Publisher: London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920

Stock code: 51974

Price: £3,850 Currency Conversion

First English language edition, first impression of Einstein's popular treatment of relativity, with the addition of an appendix on "The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity" written especially for this edition.

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in blind. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and diagrams throughout. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine titles dulled as often, partial tanning to endpapers. An excellent copy in the rubbed jacket with two small chips from the tanned spine panel and some loss of text to the front panel where a sticker was removed.

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