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1858-1859 The Household Encyclopaedia; or Family Dictionary
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce
First edition of The Household Encyclopaedia; or Family Dictionary of Everything Connected with Housekeeping and Domestic Medicine.
Complete in two volumes.
Full information on subjects relating to personal and domestic comfort.
By an association of heads of families and men of science.
A scarce edition with only four copies in libraries.
Prior owner's ink inscriptions from 1862 to the first free endpaper.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth bindings. Externally, smart. There is some bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities. The hinges are starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscriptions from 1862 to the first free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the odd spot.
Good
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