Sidereal chromatics; being a re-print, with additions, from the "Bedford cycle of celestial objects", and its "Hartwell continuation", on the colours of multiple stars
A private-circulation astronomy treatise by William Henry Smyth, printed in London in 1864 by J. B. Nichols and Sons, on the colours of double stars. Its pictures are a presentation note with two heraldic armorial bookplates, a handwritten signature, and a small engraved phoenix rising from clouds, offering a designer period engraving with crisp line shading and heraldic device motifs.
