Extracts upon the Arts more immediately connected with Chemistry

The first section is headed: 'Memorandums of certain Chemical Combinations which exhibit some remarkable Effect collected with a view of forming a series of Recreative Experiments'. The title of the second part is: 'Extracts collected from different Works on the Subjects of Dying Stuffs, Calico Printing, and Staining Wood, and other Chemical Processes...' The first section contains no dates, but was probably written before the second part. The latter seems to have begun in 1812, and the latest date given is 1816 (p. 296). Produced in Croydon.

1812-1816

1 volume 16 ll. first bl.. + 88 pp. + 8 ll. last 5 bl.. + 1 l. + 301 pp. + 9 bl. ll. 4to. 20 x 16 cm. Original half-calf binding. The title as given above is printed in gold on a red calf slip pasted down on to the outside of the upper cover.

Purchased 1931.

The unidentified compiler seems to have lived or worked at Croydon.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).