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Beddoes (Thomas, & James Watt . Considerations on the Medicinal Use, and on the Production of Factitious Airs, Part I. Part II [ ... Part III ... Parts IV. and V.], 5 parts in 1 volume, 3rd edition ('corrected and enlarged') of parts I-II, 1st editions of parts III-V, Bristol: Bulgin and Rosser, for J. Johnson 1796-5-6, parts I-II with 5 engraved plates, part III with half-title, 3 engraved plates, 2 folding tables (numbered [1]-4, parts I-IV with half-title, 2 engraved plates, final advertisement leaf, plates offset, one folding table with repaired closed tear, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, 8vo (20.7 x 12.6 cm), together with: Chemist, The Chemist, 2 volumes in 1 [all published], 1st editions, Knight and Lacey, 1824-5, containing 58 weekly numbers, each volume with separate half-title and title-page, wood-engraved diagrams in text, volume 2 title-page repaired, contemporary ownership inscription to volume 1 title, contemporary manuscript recipe for ink to rear pastedown, 19th-century red quarter calf, marbled sides, vellum tips, loss of paper on rear board, 8vo (21.3 x 12.5 cm) (Qty: 2) Beddoes and Watt: ESTC T136213, T31517, T116350; Wellcome II p. 129. Complete copies of Factitious Airs containing all five parts in any edition are rare. Knight and Lacey ceased publication of The Chemist after a temporary insolvency brought on by the book trade slump of 1826, though the magazine, 'made an imaginative use of illustrations … and it had some success in achieving its objects of outlining the principles of chemistry, and in making itself the repository for discourses in chemistry and related sciences’ (Stack, Nature and Artifice: The Life and Thought of Thomas Hodgskin, p. 81).