UK: Charles Knight, 1832 396 pages, brown cloth with wear and soiling, rubbing and splitting to spine ends, gilt lettering and decoration to spine with the number 2 [II] so assume second volume in series, dust and browning to edges (rough-cut), previous owner's name and date (1836) to front free endpaper, many vignette drawings, foxing marks to text throughout, but still a good copy of a scarce title.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

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Bookseller: Nigel Sustins Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002978
Title: Vegetable Substances for the Food of Man [Library of Entertaining Knowledge]
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Charles Knight
Place of Publication: UK
Date Published: 1832
Keywords: Vegetable Substances Food Man
Bookseller catalogs: Antiquarian; Nature; Food and Drink;

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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....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Vignette: A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...