Chemical Recreations:

A Series of Amusing and Instructive Experiments, Which may be performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense.

by John Griffin

with seventy engraved figures 

Sixth edition, corrected and enlarged.  Glasgow:  Richard Griffin & Co., 1826  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Three-quarter leatherbound covers with marbled boards and blindstamped ornament. 
• Boards show some wear to hinge shoulders, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, worn, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has label with gilt text and is worn with chipped ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure.  
• Marble end papers/ pastedowns have a library collection label on pastedown, inside feps have some light staining, writing.  
• Frontispiece is present.
• Ex-library book with expected markings.
• Illustrations are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits scattered foxing.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have marbling to match boards. 
• PS2025.0522

240 pages. 3.5 x 5.5 inches

A Very Good copy of this 19th century text-book of Chemistry, widely reprinted but scarce in commerce in its original state.  Ex-Library with some cataloguing marks but well preserved in a research institution.  Text and engraved illustrations are clear; some offset shadows and foxing to pages.

Addressed to the members of the Mechanics' Class of the Andersonian Institution in Glasgow, this work was intended as a moderately priced text-book for junior students in Chemistry.  Included are an introduction to Chemistry and a series of interesting experiments, as alluded to in the title.  Illustrated with plates that show the construction of a "Cheap and Simple Apparatus," and a humorous frontispiece showing the 'Whimsical effects of Nitrous Oxide Gas.'

The author, John Joseph Griffin (1802-1877), born in Shoreditch London, was still a young man when Chemical Recreations was first published in 1823.  In addition to being devoted to the popularizing of instruction in Chemistry, Griffin is known for developing the plain glass beaker, still known as the Griffin beaker.

Ex Libris Franklin Institute Library, Philadelphia.  With embossed stamp on title page, plate on front pastedown, a few cataloguing marks.

Sixth edition, corrected and enlarged.

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