Colin Mackenzie was a nineteenth century literary contributor/editor. Born in Edinburgh in 1795, he lived and worked in England, enrolling at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals to train as a surgeon. Mackenzie's two earliest works, One Thousand Experiments in Chemistry (1821) and Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts (1823) were by far and away his greatest successes. The latter had the most success- A household economy compendium, filled with recipes (receipts an archaic word for recipes) for all kinds of concoctions, whether culinary, medicinal or for practical household needs, Five Thousand Receipts went through at least 26 editions between 1823 and 1864 and was particularly successful in America Mackenzie, though, made no financial gain whatsoever from his American successes due to the complete absence of copyright protection for publications by British authors in nineteenth century America and this contributed to the hardship that he and his family were to endure in the following decade. ( Wikipedia) measures 5.5 x 2.5 in.