EINSTEIN, Albert. Relativity: The Special and The General Theory: A Popular Exposition. London: Methuen & Co. 1920.
8vo. Original red cloth with black lettering to spine; pp. xiii + 138 +[8, advertisements], portrait frontispiece; spine a little sunned, browning to endpapers, previous owner's pencilled signature to ffep, very good.
First edition, translated by Robert L. Lawson, publisher's presentation copy with ink stamp to title page.
This was Einstein's first book in English, being translated from the third German edition of 1918. Although in writing this exposition, Einstein maintained that 'matters of elegance should be left to the tailor and the cobbler', it remains alongside Darwin's 'Origin' and Watson's 'Double Helix', as one of the most highly regarded non-mathematical discussions of extraordinary scientific theories. This present edition includes Appendix III, especially written for this translation, on 'The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity'.
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