A practical treatise on diet
Subtitle: and on the most salutary and agreeable means of supporting life and health, by aliment and regimen. Adapted to the various circumstances of age, constitution, and climate; and including the application of modern chemistry to the culinary preparation of food
By: by William Nisbet.
Contributors: Stephens, John (bookplate)
Publisher: Printed for R. Phillips ... (by R.B. Scott ...); sold by Thomas Hurst, J. Wallis, and West and Hughes ..., J. Callow ...; T. Cox ...; E. Balfour, Edinburgh; J. Archer and H. Colbert, Dublin
Published: 1801
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Diet
Notes: Page xx numbered xix.

Last page of contents (p. xix) includes "To the public"; p. 4-5 of main text numbered iv-v; "A glossary of technical terms used in the work" (p. 421-422) includes 41 terms.

----  ------  Another state.  [1], vi (i.e. iv), xix, 434 p. Page iv numbered vi.  Last page of contents (p. xiv) lacks "To the public": p. 4-5 of main text numbered correctly; glossary (p. [421]) includes only 10 terms.  Pages 431-434 wanting.  With the bookplate of John Stephens.