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COOK William
The Chess Player's Compendium. A Practical Guide to the Openings. Fifth Edition with a New Supplement by Alfred Emery.
Roy. 8vo., Fifth Edition, with title in red and black, and very numerous chess tables throughout, free endpapers lightly browned; original pictorial green cloth, upper board framed and blocked in white and black lettered in gilt, lower board blocked in white and black, gilt back, backstrip mildly faded (but all lettering entirely legible), covers slightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. With publisher's advertisements at front and rear. This edition contains an additional 31 pages of examples from games played 1902-1910. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Betts 13-67.
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DAVID Elizabeth
English Bread and Yeast Cookery. With Illustrations by Wendy Jones. [Fifth Impression thus].
8vo., Fifth Paperback Impression, with numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. David's classic text was first published in 1977, with the paperback edition following in 1979.
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DAVID Elizabeth
A Book of Mediterranean Food. Decorated by John Minton. [Recipes from Provence, Greece, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Syria, Egypt and North Africa. Sixth Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SIXTH IMPRESSION
8vo., Sixth Impression, on laid paper, with illustrated title and numerous illustrations (several full-page) in the text, some faint offsetting to free endpapers, fore-edges very lightly age-soiled; original orange cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and brown, a very good, bright, clean copy. DAVID'S FIRST BOOK, AND THE FIRST OF THE THREE VOLUMES THAT WOULD CHANGE ENGLISH COOKING FOR EVER. Lehmann's first edition of 1950 was a small print run, in relative terms expensive and tended to appeal primarily to the converted. It was also the work that combined for the first time David's highly characteristic style with Minton's wonderfully complementary illustrations. Certainly it can be argued that this is the most influential English cookery book of the twentieth century. EARLY IMPRESSIONS ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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DAY J. Wentworth
Broadland Adventure.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 27 plates on 16, free endpapers lightly offset; cloth, a very good copy. Vivid descriptions of the Broads and Broadsmen of East Norfolk, with much evocative detail of days spent in sporting and natural history.
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ANON.
French Domestic Cookery. Combining Elegance with Economy; describing new cilunary Implements and Processes; the Management of the Table; Instructions for Carving; French, German, Polish, Spanish and Italian Cookery IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH
12mo., First Edition thus, with several woodcut illustrations in the text, neat nineteenth century signature on front free endpaper, title and first page of text; original publisher's brown grained cloth, boards with double frame border enclosing an elaborate an elaborate lozenge all in blind, very neatly recased with new cloth backstrip to style, original gilt lettering laid down, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled else a very good, crisp copy in sympathetically restored publisher's binding. According to the English editor's Preface this scarce work is 'an adapted translation of one of the most popular treatises on French Cookery, entitled La Cuisiniere de la Campagne et de la Ville ou Nouvelle Cuisine Economique, Paris, Audot, 1846'. The success and stature of the French original is compared to that of Mrs. Rundell. It has been suggested that this is in fact a second edition of a work with a similar title published by Thomas Boys in 1825 [Bitting, p. 554; Oxford, p. 157; Wellcome III, 67]; however this would contradict the Preface, and there is no mention of such a kinship in Oxford who lists both volumes. A very nice copy of an extremely scarce work. Oxford, p.177 (recording the publisher as 'David Boyne'). Not in Cagle.
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GRIGSON Jane
The Mushroom Feast. Illustrations by Yvonne Skargon. [Second Impression in Paperback]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression thus, with title-vignette and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, fore-edges very lightly browned; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Grigson's classic work was first published in 1975. It was first issued in the Penguin Handbook series in 1978.
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H. DE GRAAFF & SONS NV
The Golden Spade. The Story of a Flowerbulb Company 1793-1953.
8vo., First Edition, with 50 fine coloured plates (one mounted) and numerous monochrome photographs in the text; comb-bound inside blue cloth case, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.
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MARKMANN C.L.
The Book of Sports Cars. Foreword by Briggs S. Cunningham.
Sm. folio, First UK Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; original red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy. 'The most comprehensive text-and-picture history of the dual-purpose car since it came to life more than sixty years ago' (Foreword). The US edition was published in the previous year.
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MILES A.H.
The Household Oracle. A Popular Referee on Subjects of Household Enquiry. .Edited by Alfred H. Miles assisted by a Staff of Specialists. [First and Sole Edition].
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text, some almost imperceptible spotting on first and last few leaves; original cloth blocked in gilt, silver and blind, gilt back, sprinkled edges, joints lightly rubbed, boards very lightly age-marked else a remarkably clean, tight well-preserved copy. With front and rear trade advertisement endpapers, and advertisement left following front free endpaper. 'Miles' is astonishingly comprehensive in scope, including house building, buying and renting, furnishing, decoration, housekeeping, cookery, needlework, farming, gardening, medicine, law, world, history, British history, the calendar, standards, arithmetical tables, household amusements, games and so on. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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MURSELL J.
Windsor Chairmaking. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout; original laminated boards, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE
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KITCHINER W.
The Cook's Oracle, containing Receipts for Plain Cookery on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families [Fifth Edition]. IN ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY BINDING
12mo., Fifth Edition, page edges lightly dust-soiled; contemporary half calf, calf back ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt, backstrip lightly age-marked, joints rubbed else a most attractive copy. Cagle 797 (recording the first edition of 1817); Oxford, p.146.
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JENKINS E.H.
The Small Rock Garden. Edited by F. . Harvey.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 52 full-page monochrome photographs in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board lettered in white, gilt back, green endpaper, covers mildly age-soiled, backstrip sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. Published in the 'Country Life' Library, with 16pp publisher's catalogue at end.
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PEEL D.C.
How to Keep House.
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in red half morocco, gilt back, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Comprehensive manual of household advice prefectly reflecting the Edwardian period. Includes numbers and duties of servants, weekly budgeting, care of children and much more
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BULLOCK Mrs. H.
The Williamsburg Art of Cookery [Thirteenth Printing]. he Williamsburg Art of Cookery [Thirteenth Printing].
8vo., Thirteenth Impression thus, with a frontispiece; patterned boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, sprinkled edges, a near fine copy complete with publisher's wrap-around band. Fine copy of this wide-ranging collection of old and new Virginia recipes. The book is styled as a facsimile of the first American cookery book: Park's 'Compleat Housewife' of 1742.
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LLOYD N.
Garden Craftsmanship in Yew and Box.
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with 54 plates, free endpapers browned; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, joints very lightly rubbed, corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. Arguably the scarcest title by the historian of English brickwork. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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PALLISER Mme. B.
Histoire de la Dentelle. Traduit par La Comtesse Gedeon de Clermont-Tonnerre. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., text in French, with a portrait frontispiece, half-title and title in red and black, 16 fine coloured plates and 161 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, page edges lightly browning as usual; original red pebble-grain cloth, boards elaborately blocked in blind, back with raised bands, second compartment lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, short splits in joints at headband (but binding entirely sound), two corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright copy. Scarce in this condition.
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BEETON Mrs.
Mrs. Beeton's Cold Sweets. Jellies, Creams, Fruit Dishes, Cold Puddings, and Ices. 350 Recipes.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 7 plates, title and three following leaves lightly browned; original brown cloth , upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, an unusually bright, clean copy. In the 1920s Ward Lock produced a series of themed recipe books based on Beeton's best-selling BHM. This is (we believe) the fourth of eight such titles published between 1924 and 1925. Most of the series continued to be reissued as increasingly independent collections in their own right; some were themselves later amalgamated producing a complex bibliography.
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WILLIAMSON Henry
The Old Stag. Stories. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; burgundy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, red top, an unusually bright, clean copy. The last time that this collection of twelve hunting stories appeared together. Gretton 6; Matthews A6: 1928.
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WILLIAMS P.H.
The Modern Chess Problem. Issued under the Supervision of the British Chess Company. Second Edition, Revised, with a New Preface.
Sm. 8vo., Second Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and numerous diagrams in the text, free endpapers lightly browned, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original burgundy pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, white and black lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. With a relevant contemporary cutting loosely inserted. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Betts 30-11.
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WALSH J.H.
The English Housekeeper's Book: being practical Advice for purchasing the Supplies of the House, and for Brewing, Baking, Preserving and Pickling at Home. WANTING ONE LEAF BUT EXCESSIVELY SCARCE
8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece and 13 engraved plates, title and fore-edges mildly spotted, recipe in a neat contemporary hand on frontispiece recto; original dark green pebble-grain cloth, red roan back, wanting B7 (pp. 15-16), neatly rebacked with large fragments of old backstrip gilt laid down, yellow endpapers, a very good, firm copy of a very scarce work. RARE; AND APPARENTLY UNRECORDED IN THIS GUISE. This may well be a third edition, with an original title, of Walsh's 'English Cookery Book'. This latter work was first published in 1858 (Cagle 1045) with a second edition in 1859 (see Simon BG 1595). A possible substantiation is that all three works acknowledge [in the title] the assistance of 'a committee of ladies'. The present work is considerably more illustrated. Further to confuse, Walsh states in his Preface (dated 1857) that the present work, together with its possible forbears, are all themselves extracted from his 'Manual of Domestic Economy', the bibliography of which is equally labyrinthine. Not in BLPC; Cagle (but see 1045); Simon BG (but see 1595). We have able to find no copy in any of the standard bibliographies.
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SOYER Alexis
The Modern Housewife or Menagere. [Twenty-Second Thousand].
8vo., Twenty-Second Thousand, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; original pictorial cloth gilt, gilt back, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated). Contains almost one thousand recipes. Soyer's classic compilation was first published in 1849. Early issues are uncommon in this condition. Bitting p.443; Cagle 1004; Oxford, p.180; Vicaire 798 (all recor+ding the first edition)
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BEETON] [Mrs.
Mrs. Beeton's Cake-Making. Beeton's Cake-Making, including Buns, Biscuits and other Dainties. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece and 16 plates on 6;original brown cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss at head of backstrip (affecting lettering) and front panel, and minor loss at front fold-in. Complete with front and rear trade advertisement endpapers. First published in 1924. This post-war edition lays the emphasis on economy - 'no lavish use of eggs, butter or other materials'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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BB
Tide's Ending. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, title in blue and black, title-vignette in monochrome, 15 coloured plates and numerous monochrome illustrations in the text, small 'dog-ear' (without loss) at lower corner of front free endpaper and half-title, some very mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original decorative buckram gilt, gilt back, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at tail of backstrip (not affecting lettering) and with some light soiling against the (predominantly white) lower panel. An unusually nice copy of BB's classic work, free from inscriptions and price-clipping. With a small early twentieth century trade ticket on front paste-down.
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BAYNE-POWELL Rosamond
Housekeeping in the Eighteenth Century.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates on 8 and a full-page illustration in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition.
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COLQUHOUN Kate
Taste. The Story of Britain through its Cooking.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, numerous monochrome illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Superb celebration of the development of English cooking in both its historical and social contexts. The author has much in common with David, Grigson, Ayrton and the other luminaries. A fascinating and occasionally very funny survey.
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DAVID Elizabeth
French Country Cooking. Decorated by John Minton. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, on laid paper, with frontispiece, illustrated title, and numerous full-page and smaller illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edges very lightly speckled; original holland cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in bright, clean, unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. Published nine months after the first impression. David's second book, and to many the finest of the three classic titles that changed the nature of English cookery for ever. In common with her first work 'A Book of Mediterranean Food' this volume is greatly enhanced by the wonderful Minton illustrations. All early issues are very scarce in anything like this condition.
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DAVIDSON Alan
North Atlantic Seafood.
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; library binding of laminated boards preserving front and rear panels of dustwrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution in its binding with label trace on front free endpaper and cancelled stamp on title. This classic work was first published by Macmillan in the previous year. The author was awarded the Glenfiddich Book Author of the Year (Food) as a result
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DAY-LEWIS Tamasin
Tarts with Tops On. Or How to Make the Perfect Pie. Photography by David Loftus.
Sm. 4to., with coloured photographic title and numerous fine coloured photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, gold endpapers, silk marker, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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EALES Mary
Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts. Reproduced from the [Second] Edition of 1733.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; original orange cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Mary Eales's classic collection was first published in 1718. This is a high-quality and much-needed facsimile ( as opposed to a reprint) of the second edition. Includes a useful biographical and contextual introduction. Very scarce in its own right. Cagle 660 (1733 edition). Cagle 659; Maclean p.40; Oxford p.55 (all recording the first edition).
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ELLIOT A.G.
Gun Fun and Hints. Illustrated by Kenneth Crabbe.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Scarce in this condition
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MACLEAN Victoria
A Short-Title Catalogue of Household and Cookery Books published in the English Tongue 1701-1800. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. A standard reference.
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HILLIER M.
The History of Wax Dolls.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) in the text, and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper
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HYAMS E.
Capability Brown & Humphry Repton.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 49 plates; decorative red cloth, backstrip blocked in black and lettered in gilt, green endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Well-written biographies by an eminent garden historian.
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KENRICK V.
Horses in Japan.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter with one minor loss at upper edge of front panel. Detailed historical survey
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MABEY Richard
Food for Free. With Drawings by Marjorie Blamey. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK AND A MODERN CULINARY CLASSIC
8vo., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 148 monochrome illustrations in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author's first book, and a landmark in the 'rediscovery' of the wild foods of the countryside. Mabey catalogues and details the edible roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of all-but-forgotten common plants. In all over 300 species are described, of which 90 are illustrated in colour and 148 in Blamey's wonderfully detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. The work proved a seminal study, inspiring and influencing many other writers both on natural history and cookery. It has been many times reissued in a variety of formats but the original edition is very scarce indeed in anything like this condition.
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MAUROIS Gerald
Cooking with a French Touch. With an Introduction by Andre Maurois.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; some light offsetting from fold-ins to freer endpapers, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed (without material loss) at head of backstrip. Andre Maurois' son was by now living in the USA where the need was for a French cooking 'primer' written in straightforward yet witty style. Uncommon in this condition.
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MCLEAN T.
English Medieval Gardens.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper
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MILLER Lynn
Woodcarving and Design.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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O'SULLIVAN Timothy
Percy Thrower. A Biography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 31 plates on 16; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. An affectionate life of 'Britain's Head Gardener'.
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ROBSON Graham
The MGA, MGB and MGC. A Collector's Guide [Third Impression].
Oblong 4to., Third Impression, with very numerous photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in 1978
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ROHDE Eleanour Sinclair
Gardens of Delight. SPLENDID COPY IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, title in green and black, and 40 plates on 31; handsomely bound in full green morocco, back gilt with raised bands, uncut, illustration from dustwrapper mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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ROHDE Eleanour Sinclair
The Story of the Garden. With a Chapter on American Gardens by Mrs Francis King. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 4 fine coloured plates, 30 plates in monochrome and 2 illustrations in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. With personal book-label on front free endpaper. This detailed standard reference includes a list of plants from 'The Feate of Gardening' (c.1440) and an extensive historical bibliography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Hoyles I, p.206.
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ROHDE Eleanour Sinclair
Culinary and Salad Herbs, their Cultivation and Food Values with Recipes. Drawings by Hilda M. Coley.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and illustrations in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly frayed at extremities With a pictorial personal bookplate. .This classic study in uncommon in the dustwrapper.
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STEWART I.H.
The Scottish Coinage.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Scarce in this condition
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UGLOW Jenny
A Little History of British Gardening. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes an extensive bibliography.
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WATSON S.J.
Between the Flags. A History of Irish Steepechasing.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter with one or two closed tears. Sold from an institution with its stamps on endpapers and title verso.
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FLEMING REID & CO. LTD
What to Knit for Baby. Fourth Series. A RARE SURVIVAL
Sq. 16mo., with numerous illustrations throughout, some very light spotting; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. With trade advertisement in the text. A rare survival.
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GRIGSON Jane
Fish Cookery.
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and numerous line illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Grigson's classic collection is very scarce in this condition.
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DILLMONT Therese de
DMC [Dollfus-Mieg & Co] Library. Encyclopedia of Needlework. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., with 13 coloured plates and 1087 illustrations and diagrams in the text, page edges very faintly browning; original pictorial sage-green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, gilt top, decorative gilt endpapers, green silk marker, a near fine copy. With DMC London label on front free endpaper verso, and 56pp publisher's trade catalogue and 6pp Table of Contents bound in at end..
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PARKER, et al. Eric
Lonsdale Library Volume XXVI. The Lonsdale Keeper's Book. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 29 plates and illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper, fore-edge lightly spotted; original series binding of terracotta boards blocked in gilt, brown buckram back blocked and lettered in gilt, brown top, a very good, bright, clean copy. Like all volumes in this fine series, the present work is both comprehensive and well illustrated. The wide-ranging contributors includes many of the leading authorities of the day.
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