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COOKERY FOR ENGLISH HOUSEHOLDS
by BY A FRENCH LADY
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Company, 1864. Front cover gilt borders, spine lettered in gilt. Original green endpapers. Top corner missing front free endpaper. Half-title and the two plates of kitchen equipment are present. Chapters on kitchen appliances and pans, sauces, fish, mutton, eggs, pastries, and much more.A very clean copy. A rather rare book on cookery, WorldCat listing only five libraries worldwide owning the book. 306pp. + 6 pp.adverts. Please see photos.. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Small Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015536
- Title
- COOKERY FOR ENGLISH HOUSEHOLDS
- Author
- BY A FRENCH LADY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Company
- Place of Publication
- London and Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1864
- Size
- Small Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cooking, Cookery, Recipes, French Cookery, Cook-Books
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- 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....
- 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...
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