Samuel Parkes — The Chemical Catechism, with Notes, Illustrations, and Experiments

London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1819 . Cloth. The ninth edition of Samuel Parkes's informative educational guide to the fundamental principles of chemistry. The ninth edition of this work.Illustrated with folding frontispiece and one further plate. Collated, complete.Parkes offers a text designed to introduce the principles of chemistry to the young, structured in the form of a dialogue between a teacher and a student, and covering a wide range of topics, including the properties of gases, acids, alkalis, salts, and metals, as well as chemical processes such as combustion and fermentation. Parkes aimed to make chemistry understandable to a general audience, at a time when chemistry was becoming increasingly important in industry and daily life. Shelf number in ink to back strip tail.Former owner's inscription to title page head. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with loss of cloth to back strip tail, and vertical split in cloth to back strip. Ink notation to back strip tail. Back strip and board perimeters age toned. Front joint starting, with board somewhat tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with significant spotting throughout. Former owner's inscription to title page head. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .