The New Family Receipt-Book,

£175 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

handsome diced calf Second edition and a handsome copy in contemporary diced calf. This volume contains instructions for a variety of domestic tasks, including first aid, agriculture and husbandry, construction, brewing, preserving fruit and vegetables, caring for clothes, destroying pests, extinguishing fires, and less common activities such as taxidermy and writing with invisible ink. Second edition; 12mo (16.5 x 9 cm); publisher's ads on the verso of the final leaf, bookplates of Charles William Orde of Nunnykirk and Benjamin Chapman, a little scattered spotting to contents; contemporary diced calf, spine gilt in compartments with Greek key roll, single fillet and delicate floral roll to boards, grey endpapers, marbled edges, corners bumped, a few small marks to the calf but overall a beautiful copy; 419pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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