Count Rumford's Experimental essays, political, economical, and philososphical. Essay IV. Of chimney fire-places, with proposals for improving them, to save Fuel; to render Dwelling-Houses more Comfortable and Salubrious, and, effectually to prevent Chimnies from Smoking
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Type of record: Book
Title: Count Rumford's Experimental essays, political, economical, and philososphical. Essay IV. Of chimney fire-places, with proposals for improving them, to save Fuel; to render Dwelling-Houses more Comfortable and Salubrious, and, effectually to prevent Chimnies from Smoking
Other titles: Essays, political, economical, and philosophical
Classmark: Bedford Collection A061
Creator(s): Rumford, Benjamin Graf von (1753-1814)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell,) in the Strand
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1796
Language: English
Size and medium: [6],295-389,[3]p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721843
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019768948305181
Description
Title from cover title of original wrappers.
"The first volume of this work [i.e. 'Essays, political, economical, and philosophical'] will be completed in the course of two or three months; but, as some of the essays which compose it are upon subjects highly interesting at the present moment, each essay will be publishe separately, as soon as it is out of the press" (p.[3] of wrappers).
Bedford copy A061 wanting original wrappers.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A061: half calf, green paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A061: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: CPo/12.
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