6-page patent with large folding graphic chart of the machinery. London: George Edward Eyre & William Spottiswoode, 1870.

Sanjida O'Connell, in her book Sugar: The Grass that Changed the World, writes, "Alexandre Manbré, born in 1825, came from Valenciennes in the old, northern French province of Hainaut and was the son of a farmer; like many farmers in those days, he was also a brewer. The company he formed in 1864 was called Glucose, Sugar & Coloring, Ltd. In 1870, he applied for a patent for a machine he invented to convert cereal and vegetable matter into sugar, and to purify saccharine substances obtained from starch, malt, fruits and vegetables. Rubber stamp of the Franklin Institute Library, short tears & chips along spine area, else very good.