The Sale of Food and Drugs, The Acts of 1875 and 1879 (With Notes...
Guide to the First Major Legislation to Regulate the Purity of Food and Drugs Hedderwick, T[homas] C[harles] H[unter] [1850-1918]. The Sale of Food and Drugs. The Acts of 1875 and 1879 (With Notes of the Reported Cases Decided Since the Acts Became Law). London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1894. xii, 101 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary cloth, blind rules to boards, gilt titles to center of front board and spine. Light rubbing and a few minor spots to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities spine ends and corners bumped, hinges starting, moderate toing to interior. $250. * First edition. An elaborate gloss of the first major legislation regulating the adulteration of food and drugs, an effort first begun in 1860, with a section devoted to the adulteration of milk. A second edition was published in 1900. Both editions of this work are scarce. OCLC locates 8 copies of the first, 2 in North America, 1 in a law library (New York Law Institute). Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:163.
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