Albert Einstein | Relativity: the special and general theory, 1920

Albert Einstein

Relativity: the special and general theory, a popular exposition. London: Methuen & Co, 1920

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece portrait of Einstein, five diagrams, 8 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear, publisher's red cloth, title stamped in dark brown to spine and in blind to upper cover, dust-jacket, bespoke orange morocco and marbled clamshell box, spine slightly sunned, head and foot of spine worn, affecting publisher's name, extremities bumped, hinges cracked

The first English edition of this groundbreaking work on Einstein's theory of relativity. Copies in the original dust-jacket rarely appear at auction.