Beeton's Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book. A Practical and Useful Guide for all Mistresses and Servants
by (Beeton's)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
San Anselmo, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London. Ward, Lock and Co. 1891. Bound in gilt titled pictorial cloth covered boards. Thick 8vo. Entirely New Edition Revised and Greatly Enlarged". Illustrated with various colour and monochrome plates (some full page). Some fading to covers and spine. Covers and spine well worn. Head and tail pieces mildly worn. Hinges starting. Corners bumped. Some mild foxing to edges. Prelims well foxed and further mild foxing throughout. A Very Good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heldfond Book Gallery, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7294
- Title
- Beeton's Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book. A Practical and Useful Guide for all Mistresses and Servants
- Author
- (Beeton's)
- Format/Binding
- Bound in gilt titled pictorial cloth covered boards.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1891.
Terms of Sale
Heldfond Book Gallery, ABAA-ILAB
The Heldfond Book Gallery is an elected member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and conforms to all ethical codes and standards of those organizations.Books found to be materially mis-described may be returned within seven days of receipt and all monies will be promptly refunded, if returned to us in the same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Heldfond Book Gallery, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Anselmo, California
About Heldfond Book Gallery, ABAA-ILAB
Located just accross the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, California - the Heldfond Book Gallery, Ltd. is one of the oldest and most esteemed Rare Bookstores on the West Coast. Specializations include: Illustrated Books in all disciplines, Fine Bindings and Sets, Important Literary First Editions,Fine Arts, Collectable Children's Illustrated Books, Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula,Rare Aviation and Maritime as well as a consistently superb inventory of General Antiquarian Materials.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
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