The New Domestic Cookery; Formed Upon Principles of Economy; Exhibited in a Plain and Easy Manner, and Adapted to the Use of Private Families
by A. M. Gordon
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor/N/a
- Seller
-
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Dublin: James M'Glashan, 1849. All the current tips in the Victorian kitchen from when food was in season, to how to carve and how to make cheese. Light-brown covers with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and blind-stampd decoration to front board, 328pp with several woodcuts, inc frontis of maid in kitchen. Covers have general wear, 0.5cm missing at head and foot of spine, which is faded. Both hinges very weak - but holding. Ffep is missing, pp23/4 loose, very small hole in edge of frontis verso, several marks on covers, particularly rear. Neat previous owner's name on frontis verso and bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. Overall a delicate, but intact copy of a fascinating mid-Victorian social document. Ref:093621. First Edition. Cloth. Poor/N/a. 10.5x17.5cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003621
- Title
- The New Domestic Cookery; Formed Upon Principles of Economy; Exhibited in a Plain and Easy Manner, and Adapted to the Use of Private Families
- Author
- A. M. Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- N/a
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James M'Glashan
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1849
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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