An Essay on sugar
Subtitle: proving it the most pleasant, salubrious, and useful vegetable to mankind; especially as refin'd and brought to its presnt perfection in England. With remarks on a method lately published of procuring a fermentation in the West-Indies
Publisher: Printed for E. Comyns, at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange.
Published: 1752
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Fermentation; Sugar
Notes: Dedication (p. [3], 1st count) signed: "The author.", but name not revealed.

Title vignette.

Signatures: [A]⁴ (-A4) B-E⁴ chi1 ([A]1 verso, [A]2 verso, chi1 verso blank)

Includes extract on fermentation, from: Hughes, Griffith. The natural history of Barbados. London, 1750 (p. 25-33)

Watt, R.  Bib. britannica, 4: fol. 4S2 recto.

Higgs, H.  Bib. of economics, 265.

English short title catalogue T089553.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary half calf and paper boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from the Trust Fund of Lathrop Colgate Harper.