Author: ACCUM Frederick
Title: A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light: exhibiting a summary description of the Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal=Gas: with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and general Nature of this new ranch of Civil Economy.
Description: London, Stereotyped and Printed by Davies and Michael for R Ackermann 1815 (Second Edition) xvii, 194pp, 7 coloured plates of which two are fold out, 6pp publisher's catalogue 26x17, rebound in red cloth, glt text Cloth a bit rubbed and marked; the original pages have a small number of margin marks and a couple of annotations, several pages have tape marks from a previous binding, edges are uncut and slightly wavey, first fold out plate is splitting along a fold, fair to good copy overall of a rare and important publication. Accum was one of the driving forces behind the adoption of gas lighting in London in the early years of the 19th century. He was also interested in food processing, and wrote a widely read book on the adulteration of food that stemmed from industrial processes using newly discovered chemicals without regard for their safety. The ensuring controversy led to him leaving London for his native Germany.

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