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Publisher: James Baverstock, London, 1785.
Hard Cover, 104 pages, 5.25 x 8.50.
Item #1763
James Baverstock, author of several books on brewing during the late 1700s and early 1800s, pens this tome teaching brewers how to use a hydrometer in the brewery -- something not entirely common at the time of publication (1785). Chapters: 1) On the hydrometer and the hydrostatical balance, 2) Application of the hydrometer in examining different waters, 3) Use of the hydrometer in doscovering the value of hops, 4) Use of the former experiment, 5) Use of the hydrometer in discovering the value of worts, and in ascertaining the mean specific gravity of two worts, 6) Application of the hydrometer in doscovering the mean specific gravity of three worts, and in forming standard gravities, with either two or more worts, 7) Use of the hydrometer in discovering the precise value of different mashes, or parcels of malt, 8) Of the different kinds of hydrometers, 9) On barley and malt, 10) On the thermometer, 11) Application of the hydrometer in directing the extraction and fermentation of sweets, and 12) Appendix.
Very scarce. World Catalog finds only 5 copies in libraries worldwide. Quarter calf spine and marbled papered boards. Author identified at the end of his Dedication to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, London.
Bookplate on inside front cover shows this copy to have been owned by Thomas F. Boddington. See pics.
CONDITION: Spine badly decayed, with boards only loosely attached. Third blank page detached. An excellent candidate for restoration.
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