Guide to the chalybeate spring of Thetford, : exhibiting the general and primary effects of the Thetford Spa - rules essential to be observed whilst taking a course of the waters - an account of the diseases in which it will most probably be found efficacious - cautionary hints against the indiscriminate use of this water in diseases to which it is inapplicable, and testimonials of medical men, showing the curative effects of the spa in certain obstinate and lingering maladies; with observations on bathing, and a sketch of the history and present state of Thetford. / By Frederick Accum ...
Friedrich Christian Accum (1769 - 1838)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101398
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, 159, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (folded) ; 12mo. Pencil price "18-" on front pastedown. Pencil number "484" on front pastedown. Pencil code "6/40" on rear pastedown. Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century printed paper over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords; as issued.
Makers and roles
Friedrich Christian Accum (1769 - 1838), author Read, William, engraver (printmaker) Joseph Wilkinson (Carlisle 1764 - Thetford 1831), artist