Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Volumes 1-16

1922-1937

Mellor Papers

London: Longmans, Green and Co.

Mellor began writing his magnum opus of chemistry, Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, well before the first volume was published in 1922. In all, over the next fifteen years, sixteen volumes were published, with 16,000,000 words in total, all written by one man – Joseph William Mellor.