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Philadelphia   James Kay, Jun. & Co.
9" by 6" [5] 456pp
A fascinating early nineteenth-century work on the domestic arts, including cookery, agriculture, gardening, amateur medicine, dyeing, and more. Bound in contemporary half calf.
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1831 Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts In All the Useful and Domestic Arts

Philadelphia   James Kay, Jun. & Co.
9" by 6" [5] 456pp
A fascinating early nineteenth-century work on the domestic arts, including cookery, agriculture, gardening, amateur medicine, dyeing, and more. Bound in contemporary half calf.
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Early Edition, Leather Binding, Rebound

A fascinating and comprehensive work on the domestic arts, including cookery, agriculture, gardening, amateur medicine, dyeing, and more. 

The fourth American edition based on the latest London edition.

Rebound in contemporary half calf with cloth covered boards and refreshed endpapers. 

Including a gift inscription to the title page, 'Jacob Hanks, to Harriet Stark'. Also including a tipped in hand-written sticker to page 456. 

Condition

Rebound in contemporary half calf and cloth covered boards. Externally, very smart, with some wear to the spine label. Previous owner's ink inscriptions to the title page and page 456. Internally, very tightly bound. A few ink spots to the fore-edge, and some light scattered spotting to the pages.

Good

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