The Complete Housewife: or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion. Being a Collection of upwards of Seven Hundred of the most approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastries...Custards...Syrups...Brewing. With copper plates, curiously engraven......
by SMITH, ELIZA:
- Used
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: for J. Buckland [& others], 1773. Frontispiece and 4 engraved plates as called for. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches), pages: (40):400, contemporary full dark tan calf; rubbed, backstrip very chipped. Blank lower fore-corner of one leaf torn away without loss, another leaf torn also without loss. Crack at one inner gutter but firm. Hinges cracked but holding. Generally internally very good. Early name, Mrs Arthur Hobby, and address on recto of frontispiece.
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- Bookseller
- Bristow and Garland (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17755
- Title
- The Complete Housewife: or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion. Being a Collection of upwards of Seven Hundred of the most approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastries...Custards...Syrups...Brewing. With copper plates, curiously engraven......
- Author
- SMITH, ELIZA:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- London: for J. Buckland [& others], 1773.
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Bristow and Garland
Biblio member since 2005
Shaftesbury, Dorset
About Bristow and Garland
Long established antiquarian & secondhand booksellers and dealers in autographs and manuscripts.
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...