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Warne's Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book: Containing Complete Instructions in Household Management
by Mary Jewry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1868. 1st Edition . Good Plus. 5.75 x 7.5 inches (14.5 x 19 cm). First edition. Half black leather with textures cloth boards. Slight cracking to front joint but solidly bound. Slight fading and a few light marks to boards. Heavy browning to page edges. Light foxing and occasional marks to text. Faint tobacco smell. Complete with all 24 chromolithographic plates by Kronheim. Plate at page 508 has wear and chipping to edges (appears to have been re-attched). Further illustrations within the text. Previous owner's inscription to title page, dated 1876. Includes a couple of handwritten cake recipes on lined writing paper, loosely inserted. . Overall condition is Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 7.5 inches (14.5 x 19 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: viii,728
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1206C216
- Title
- Warne's Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book: Containing Complete Instructions in Household Management
- Author
- Mary Jewry
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1868
- Size
- 5.75 x 7.5 inches (14.5 x 19 cm)
- Keywords
- Vintage Cookery, Victorian, Cookery Book, Cook Book, Recipes, Household Management, Domestic Economy, Home Economics, Cookery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Bindings; Cookery;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
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
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Plate
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- First Edition
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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