8vo. 33pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Harry Percy Boord to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting.

The second known copy of an extract, printed for private circulation, from Scottish physician Andrew Ure's (1778-1857) Dictionary of Chemistry (1821) concerning his experiments surrounding the chemical production of electricity.

OCLC records a single copy (Cambridge); OCLC adds no further.