The Modern Housewife, or, Menagere
by Alexis Soyer
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co, 1855. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. Alexis Soyer's conclusive Victorian cookery work, Soyer being the most famous cook in Victorian England. An extensive work on housewifery, a useful guide to the housewife with nearly one thousand recipes detailed throughout.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and five plates.By Alexis Soyer, the most celebrated cook of Victorian England.The thirty second thousand. Twelve pages of adverts.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored, with renewed endpapers. Externally, smart, with a few minor marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional scattered spot, heavier to the frontispiece. Neat repair to the margin of one of the leaves of the preface. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 908P33
- Title
- The Modern Housewife, or, Menagere
- Author
- Alexis Soyer
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simpkin, Marshall, & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1855
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- The Modern Housewife, or, Menagere modern housework menagere alexis soyer modern housework cookery
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
Glossary
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- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....