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[004893] Accum, Fredrick. A Treatise on the Art of Making Wine from Native Fruits; Exhibiting the Chemical Principles Upon Which the Art of Wine Making Depends, the Fruits Best Adapted for Home Made Wines and the Method of Preparing Them. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First Edition. 12mo. Hardback. Good. [1], 2-9pp, [1] [adverts], [3], iv-viii, [1], 10-92pp, [1], i-xxiii, [1]. Original boards, later rebacked in morocco, with the author, title, and date in gilt to spine

Boards lightly soiled, rubbed to extremities. Internally the text is lightly browned, some browning to page edges, occasional light soiling or foxing to margins, former owner’s name stamp to head of title, but generally fairly clean

With a bookseller’s label to front pastedown. Colour vignette of a wine press to title. Publisher’s catalogue, dated February 1821 before text, and with reviews of Accum’s Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, from the British Review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, and the Literary Gazette and a publisher’s advertisement to rear

Cagle 536; Gabler, page 4; Simon BG 16; Wellcome II: 11