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 branch of civil economy
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Type of record: Book
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 branch of civil economy
Classmark: Bedford Collection A596
Creator(s): Accum, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838)
Additional creator(s): Clowes, William (1779-1847) (Printer); Ackermann, Rudolph (1764-1834) (Publisher); Hatchard, John (1768-1849) (Publisher); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (Publisher); Sherwood, Neely, and Jones (Publisher)
Publisher: Printed by W. Clowes, Northumberland Court for R. Ackerman, 101, Strand: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Sherwood, Neely and Jones, Paternoster Row; and J. Hatchard, Piccadilly
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1818
Language: English
Size and medium: x, [6], [xi]-xvii, [1], 194, 6 p., VII leaves of plates (2 folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729076
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019814930005181
Description
Final 6 pages are advertisements for Works of art published by R. Ackermann at his Repository of Arts, No. 101, Strand, London.
Includes bibliographical references.
Indexed in: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 22057.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A596: loose excerpt from newspaper [2007] about Frederick Accum, and the sale of two of his publications; loose excerpt from sale catalogue for the second edition, no. 692, Bloomsbury Auctions, 26-27/11/2008.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A596: modern brown paper over boards, printed spine label.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A596: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: L/16.
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