Full leather, with gilt border, gilt decorative spine and title; marbled boards. x 343 pages. The award sticker on the front paste down tells us that Hector A McDonald, a student at Glenferrie High School, was awarded the book first prize in Mathematics and Latin. The book is immaculate, and I don't the pages have ever been turned. The front board is lightly rubbed at the head, else immaculate. A beautiful, elegant book. It covers steam engines, lighthouses, printing, railways and locomotives, telephones, cotton and iron and yes, there's more. The book provides no author and James Hamilton Fyfe is taken from Trove.