Rutley's elements of mineralogy has been around for a long time, certainly throughout my own lifetime; Read first took over the authorship, and thereafter in 1936 and in 1965 when the last major changes occurred.
Comments sought prior to the revision revealed considerable disagreement about the role of blowpipe analyses in the book.
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Rutley's elements of mineralogy, paperback/c. d. gribble
