[Rarebooks] FS: 1841- Practical Receipts for Arts & Manufacture

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

[Cooley, Arnold James] "THE CYCLOPAEDIA OF PRACTICAL RECEIPTS IN ALL THE
USEFUL AND DOMESTIC ARTS: being a compendious Book of Reference for the
Manufacturer, Tradesman, and Amateur. By a Practical Chemist"

London; John Churchill: 1841.

A "practical receipt" book aimed at tradesmen and merchants, among others.
The author notes in his preface that most similar works have been marred
by inaccuracies or the use of costly ingredients, deficiencies he has
tried to remedy. The result is a fascinating compendium, a vivid snapshot
of what merchants and traders were up to in the mid 19th century. The
receipts range from ghastly (English gin is made using malt, salt and
turpentine, the flavor varied by using more or less turpentine) to the
truly practical, if flashy (to break glass, dip a worsted thread in
whatever turpentine is left over from the gin, tie it around the break
point of the glass, and set it on fire -then dowse with cold water).

The reader learns to make ice with spring water and refined nitre; to make
"cheap fuel" bricks with coal, sawdust, sand, marl and tar; to make fake
garnets with manganese oxide, purple of cassius, glass of antimony and
paste; to gild glass and paper, make furniture oils, varnish and glue,
make nutmeg lozenges, waxed paper, and Roman candles. If it's not here,
chances are it couldn't be done. A later edition was published in America
(1846); Cooley wrote several other versions of the book over the next
several decades, but this first edition is uncommon, with 5 OCLC listings.

Hardcover. 5"x8", vi + 281 pages; publisher's brown embossed cloth with
gilt titles; covers lightly soiled and worn; stain on endpaper corner;
light internal soil. Overall a nice copy. [30752] $150.00

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