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Mrs. Beeton's Household Management: a Complete Cookery Book
by Beeton, Isabella:
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Bibliographic Details
- Quantity available: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: London: Ward Lock, no date (c.1920?)
Book Description
London: Ward Lock, no date (c.1920?) New edition HBK. Red spine with gilt lettering and embossing, covers in brown cloth. Advertising inside covers. xvi + Index 1680 + 10pp. advertisements + 32 colour plates + nearly 700 illustrations. Corners front cover bumped and broken, front cover scuffed and minor abrasions. O/w good copy.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back. gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example. plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings. bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending. o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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