Search Results: Domestic Arts from Bygone Books

New York: J. B. Ford, 1870. Hardcover. VG+. Printing of 1870, c1869. 8vo, green cloth beveled boards with gilt decorated spine and gilt author names on front cover, brown endpapers, all edges gilt, 500 pages, [8] pages publisher adverts, engraved frontis (Reuter-Stewart) and title page with tissue guard, text engravings throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD+ : light rubbing to extremities, small tears at spine head, tiny tear front cover, scratch to rear cover, a few faint foxing stains to tissue guard, clean and tight throughout. A lovely copy of this important book on the domestic lives of American women. Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-78), was an educator and women's rights activist who wrote a number of educational treatises and handbooks for housewives, this one with her more famous sister Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). The work is dedicated "To the Women of America, in whose hands rest the real destinies of the Republic.

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1972. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG. 1st edition, quarto hardcover in blue cloth, 313 pp, b/w and color illustrations throughout. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has lt. edgewear, owner name on fep; jacket has lt. wear at edges, two 1" closed tears (one at spine head gutter, the other at front fore edge fold), chipping to spine head, faint spotting to underside, crease to rear flap.

Tallahassee, FL: Serendipity, 1983. First Edition . Soft cover. VG+. Based on the chintz quilts in the collections of The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont and the Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina. 1st edition. 4to, wraps, 88p, color and b/w illus. VERY GOOD+ with sl. cover wear, old sticker residue on front cover. An uncommon title.

London: J.M. Dent, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. G+. 1st edition. sm. octavo, green cloth, 242p, b/w illus by Adrian de Fristan, bibliography. Condition is GOOD+/ no jacket: some lt. edgewear to spine head and tail and corners, very sl. cocked, spotting to endpapers, gilt on spine is dulled, owner name on fep. "This book attempts to give an outline of the many changes which have taken place in the character of British food, drink and cookery, for the last five or six thousand years...

NY: Dover Publications, 1972. Soft cover. VG+. 2 volumes, the Dover reprint edition, first published in 1972, an unabridged republication of the second edition (1887) of the work originally published by A.W. Cowan, London in 1882 under the title "The Dictionary of Needlwork: An Encyclopedia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needlwork." 4to, stiff wraps, 697 pages (in 2 volumes), b/w illustrations throughout with color illustrated endpapers. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : light edgewear to covers, a crease to top corner of vol. II, owner label inside front cover of vol. II. A nice copy of this set.

Philadelphia, PA: Penn Publishing, 1906. Hardcover. VG. ...Good manners for all people, especially for those 'who dwell within the broad range of the average'." A later printing (originally published in 1892), 24mo, green cloth with white lettering and black decoration, 203 pages. VERY GOOD condition with light rubbing to spine head and tail, spine lettering is lightly faded, internally clean and tight...a very nice copy.

Preoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, 1925. Hardcover. G. McAfee, Ila.. No edition statement. 8vo, olive green cloth, 244 pp, b&w illustrations, color frontispiece, bibliography. Condition is GOOD / no jacket: a water stain to rear board, stain to fore edge that leaves a faint stain on margin throughout the book, a very sl. ripple to the pages, NO odor or any markings (excepting owner name on fep,) lt. sunning to covers.

NY: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989. First American edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 1st Am edition; originally published in France as "Dentelles" by Editions Adam Biro, Paris in 1988. Quarto, deep red cloth, 192 pages, 180 illustrations (92 in colour), select bibliography. Condition is NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: an owner gift card is taped to front endpaper, otherwise book is like new; jacket has slight edgewear. A lovely copy of a lovely book...

New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1948. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Metropolitan Cook Book. New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1948. Description: 12mo, stapled wraps, 56 pages, index. Covers all manner of recipes: Beverages, Cereals, Quick Breads, Yeast Breads, Cakes, Frostings and Fillings, Cookies, Soups, Fish, Meat, Poultry, Leftovers, various sauces, Eggs, Cheese, Vegetables, Salads / Dressings, Puddings, Dessert Sauces, and Pastry. and more. Vintage advertising cookbook, published and reprinted over a number of years. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with slight wear. A nice copy.

Boston, MA: Priscilla Publishing Co., 1913. Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. An Illustrated Journal Devoted to Art, Needlework, Fashions, Home Decoration, and other Household Matters." Published monthly. Original price of 10 cents. Folio, illustrated wraps, 34 pages + covers. Condition: VERY GOOD- with some edgewear, light soiling. Cover of two women around a fountain, one is embroidering; contents include the usual collection of fashion, embroidery, ideas for picnic luncheons and afternoon teas. Story by Annie Page Jones "The Blue Lady," illustrations by Philip Lyford, Henry Vallely, and others; the usual fabulous advertisements to help you improve your hair, your face and body, and fashion patterns of all kinds. [Annie Page Jones was born on 23 May 1867 in New Store, VA, she died on 05 Apr 1950; married Matthew Joel Cox on 31 Dec 1913].

Philadelphia: Charles j. Peterson, 1877. Soft cover. Good. Peterson's Ladies National Magazine. February Vol. LXXI, No. 2. Philadelphia, 1877. Pages 109-172, plus fashion prints, engravings, advertisements. 1 fold-out color plate: Les Modes Parisiennes, The Winter Promenade, Engraved and printed by Illman Brothers; engraving "Such a Love of a Man" painted by E. Boutibonne, Illman Brothers engravers, for the story of the same name on page 109-11 by the Author of 'The Story of an Umbrella." Foldout of design for straw embroidery on net; other fashion prints of the period and handiwork patterns. Stories included: Frances Hodgson Burnett, "The Captain's Youngest;" "Rhoda's Prisoner" by Rosalie Gray [Mrs. D. H. Mann]; "That Female Lect'rer and I" by Josiah Allen's Wife [pen name of Marietta Holley [1836-1926]; and many others. Condition is GOOD with edgewear all around, small tears and chipping, owner name on front cover["Azuba C… Read More

Shelburne, VT: Shelburne Museum, 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. Museum Pamphlet Series, Number 2, on the famed (and fabulous!) quilt collection at the Shelburne Museum. 8vo, wraps, 96 pages, b/w illustrations, 1 in color, bibliography. Condition is VERY GOOD: light spotting to pages edges and on title and last page, the paste-on title label to front cover is missing,owner address label inside from cover, light pencil notation inside rear cover.

Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Co., 1902. First Thus Edition . Hardcover. G+. ... edited from the best authorities." 1st thus edition, 8vo, beige cloth / black titles, 436 pages, b/w illustrations. Condition is GOOD+: light cover and edge wear, corners bumped, owner name on endpapers, internally clean and tight, excepting pencil sribbles on the front endpapers and bottom page edge, and pen scribbles on the back endpapers which leaves a few tiny punctures and tears: this is the only flaw to the otherwise very nice condition of this book (looks as though a small child was playing school...thankfully he/she never went past the endpapers...!)

Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK: Baros Books, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition (no additional printings noted). 8vo, blue boards, 149 pages, b/w photographs throughout, bibliography, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: small stain to top page edge, otherwise looks unread. The author discusses the history and development of visiting cards and their cases with more than 300 illustrations of the various cases and the materials of which they were made (silver, mother-of-pearl, ivory, lacquer, papier mache, Tunbridge wear, etc) and the decoration with which they were embellished, reflecting the social history of the Regency and Victorian periods (from the jacket). Georgette Heyer would have made great use of this book.