This is one of the finest, most engaging,  books on the history of automata. It features passages on Vancanson's Duck, Kempelen's Chess Player, Maskelyne's Automata and Jacquet-Droz. Includes a section of illustrations and photographs.  
 
Condition: Good, some wear to dust jacket and yellowing to pages, marks to boards and inside of dust jacket, foxing to page edges.
 
Binding: Hardback
Year:  2002 (First ed.)
Publisher: Faber
Pages: 278
Dimensions: 20 X 13cm