A Text-book on Trade Waste Waters : Their Nature and Disposal
London: Charles Griffin & Company, Limited 1913. First Edition. xii, 340, [13]-76 (ads) pages. 8vo. Publisher's red pebbled cloth gilt. Minor discoloration to the cloth, wear at the corners. Bright and clean internally, noting small inserted tab at [i] noting "Net Book - This book is supplied to the Trade on terms which will not allow of Discount to the Public. Charles Griffin & Co. Ltd". Also penned note at top of preface page "With the Authors' compliments" which we would have believed is printed, but which other copies lack. Most probably in a secretarial hand. A bright clean copy with many folding plates and a large catalog of publisher's additional titles in rear. Very Good. Cloth. [23976]
With 74 illustrations including 22 plates. "This short text-book has been written with the object of collecting in a concise form material which has been gathered during many years' experience of the working of the Rivers Polution Prevention Acts. It aims at describing trade processes so far as to show the origin and nature of polluting waste liquids, and sets out the means which have been found successful in the purification of these." (from preface)
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