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The Lady's, Housewife's, and Cookmaid's Assistant: Or, The Art of Cookery Explained and Adapted to the meanest Capacity. Containing, I, How to roast... &c.. The whole designed to fit out an Entertainment in an Elegant manner, and at a small expence.
by TAYLOR, E.:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Printed for G. Freer, 1769 1st. Small hardback, 7 x 4 inches. In full calf leather fine binding with blind decorative paneled boards, raised banding to spine with gilt lettering to leather spine label, and gilt bands to spine ends. In very good condition. Near fine binding (later). Some minor darkening to edges of endpapers. Some minor tanning, and occasional minor foxing spots to pages, some minor handling marks. Lacks one page, p135-6 (Stewing Oysters.) Else a very good clean and tight copy. xii + 276pp + 4pp (Table Dressing) + 2pp (Marketing Tables) & Index (Unpaginated, 10pp.) With decorative head and tail pieces, 4 pages of diagrams of table-settings at rear.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93537
- Title
- The Lady's, Housewife's, and Cookmaid's Assistant: Or, The Art of Cookery Explained and Adapted to the meanest Capacity. Containing, I, How to roast... &c.. The whole designed to fit out an Entertainment in an Elegant manner, and at a small expence.
- Author
- TAYLOR, E.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Printed for G. Freer, 1769 1st
- Keywords
- COOKERY, WINE and DRINKS TAYLOR, E., The Lady's, Housewife's, and Cookmaid's Assistant: Or, The Art of Cookery, leather fine binding, early printing
Terms of Sale
The Antique Map & Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
Biblio member since 2016
Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
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