Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas : for the lighting of streets, houses, and public buildings, with elevations, sections, and plans of the most improved sorts of apparatus now employed at the gas works in London, and the principal provincial towns of Great Britain; accompanied with comparative estimates, exhibiting the most economical mode of procuring this species of light
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Type of record: Book
Title: Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas : for the lighting of streets, houses, and public buildings, with elevations, sections, and plans of the most improved sorts of apparatus now employed at the gas works in London, and the principal provincial towns of Great Britain; accompanied with comparative estimates, exhibiting the most economical mode of procuring this species of light
Other titles: Practical treatise on gas-light
Classmark: Bedford Collection A597
Creator(s): Accum, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838)
Additional creator(s): Boys, Thomas (1792-1880) (Publisher); Green, C B (1820-1822) (Printer); Lowry, Wilson (1762-1824) (Engraver); Read, William (1817-1842) (Engraver); Palmer, G H (Illustrator); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Hinchcliffe, John Jubb (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Boys, No. 7, Ludgate-Hill. (from No. 3, Paternoster Row)
Publication city: London
Date(s): MDCCCXX. [1820]
Language: English
Size and medium: xv, [1], 334, [2] pages, [6] leaves of hand-coloured plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729088
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019814930405181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Accum entirely rewrote his 1815 Practical treatise on gas-light in 1819, and published it under the this title. -- University of Pennsylvania.
"This forms to a certain extent a supplement to the 'Practical treatise on gas-light' and treats the subject wholly from a technical standpoint. These two works together form a complete treatise on the state of the science in its quite vigorous infancy..." -- bookseller's description.
Engraved title page with coloured title-vignette, labelled Plate I (of the seven listed on title page).
Printer from page 334: C. Green, Printer, 15, Leicester Street, Leicester Square.
Includes the preface to the first edition, London, 1819.
Includes London price list for parts and apparatus.
Price fifteen shillings on title page.
Plate II, the frontispiece, is signed Mulholland Delt. and W. Read, Sculpt. Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.
Plate IV is signed G.H. Palmer, Del; Plate V is signed W. Read, Sculpt.; Plate VII is signed Lowry Delt. & Sculpt.
With index, and final pages are an advertisement for Just published [titles] by Thomas Boys, No. 7, Ludgate Hill.
Indexed in: Partington, J.R., History of chemistry,
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A597: contemporary green cloth, green and gold decorated paper over boards, printed spine label.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A597: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: L/17. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: John Jubb Hinchcliffe Sheffield Road Barnsley. MS. annotation on front pastedown about Frederick Accum in John Bedford's hand.
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