Modern Cookery, For Private Families, Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in Which Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been ass Much as Possible Applied and Explained
by ACTON, ELIZA
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts 1860. Sm octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine, blind stamp rule & decoration to boards, xlvii + 643pp + 24pp to rear, illus, scruffy (spine flapping loose but still hanging on, heavy bruising & scuffing to extrems with some surface loss, heavy staining to spine & boards, v heavy tanning to page edges, some prelims potentially missing, moderate foxing throughout, heavy cracking to gutters sporadically throughhoutprev. owner's name in ink to dedication page)
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- Title
- Modern Cookery, For Private Families, Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in Which Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been ass Much as Possible Applied and Explained
- Author
- ACTON, ELIZA
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts 1860
- Keywords
- cookbooks cooking cookery food recipes culinary house keeping history
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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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