These beautiful endpapers are found inside our copy of Notes on Metallurgical Analysis, published in 1903. The book was written by Nathaniel Wright Lord, a mining engineer who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 26, 1854. Lord worked at Ohio State University in various capacities (including Director of the School of Mines, Dean of the College of Engineering, Professor of Metallurgy and Mineralogy) over the course of 33 years. He died of heart failure on May 23, 1911.