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ACCUM, Frederick (1769-1838). A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Breads, Beer, Wine, Spirituous Liquors .... London: Longman, Hurst, [etc.], 1820. 8°. Tinted aquatint title vignette (a little discolouration and spotting). Contemporary tan half calf (lightly rubbed). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author to A. Ackermann 'As a token of friendship from Fredrick Accum in Berlin', the son of the celebrated publisher Rudolph Ackermann, with whom Accum had been much involved in his successful project to bring gas lighting to London and the other large cities of England (inscription on an endpaper, dated 1859) -- inscription, dated 1894, by Ackermann's son, on the same page, recording a presentation from the earlier dedicatee 'In consequence of the publication of this book Mr J. Accum was threatened with personal violence & after hiding some time in London he returned to Berlin'.
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of one of the first exposures of food adulteration whose sensational conclusions caused the author to exile himself for some time from England. Garrison and Morton 1604.2; Bitting p.2.
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of one of the first exposures of food adulteration whose sensational conclusions caused the author to exile himself for some time from England. Garrison and Morton 1604.2; Bitting p.2.
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