Formula for the safety match.- [Sturge (Edmund, Quaker businessman and campaigner for liberal causes, 1808-93)] Memoranda of Experiments and Analysis, part autograph manuscript, c. 260pp. excluding blanks, some reverse entries, 5 chemical reports loosely inserted, original morocco, gilt lettered direct on upper cover, slightly rubbed, 190 x 125mm., 1841-91.*** Includes on p. 56 a recipe for safety matches, "Lumber Matches without Sulphur." White phosphorus was poisonous to match makers, causing Phossy jaw. Albright and Wilson exhibited amorphous phosphorus at the Great Exhibition of 1851, at The Crystal Palace. A sample was taken away for testing by the two Swedish brothers Lundström, to make an experimental match composition. In 1855, just before the Paris Exhibition. John Edvard Lundstrom found that the matches were still usable. He placed a large order for amorphous phosphorus with Albright and Wilson and this led to the foundation of the Swedish Safety Match Industry.Edmund Sturge joined his elder brother John Sturge, (1799-1840) at his business at Edgbaston, Birmingham, becoming a partnership, J. & E. Sturge. They manufactured industrial chemicals, including citrates, tartrates, bicarbonate of potash and precipitated chalk.Provenance: Roger Warner (1913-2008), antiques dealer and collector.