Complete and unabridged, with 49 full-page plates by Peter Michal Bohúň, Odilon Redon and Frederic Edwin Church. What the night sky held before photography settled it: the dark nebulae, the vanished stars, the rings and the double suns. Serviss lectured to packed halls with a lantern and a telescope and wrote astronomy for people who had never had it explained without mathematics. This edition binds 49 plates of painting with the text, among them Munch, Friedrich and Church, alongside 23 illustrations restored and coloured.