The Modern universal receipt book; and complete practical library of useful domestic knowledge, in all the branches of science and art; collected with the greatest care from the best authorities, and illustrated with engravings
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The Modern universal receipt book; and complete practical library of useful domestic knowledge, in all the branches of science and art; collected with the greatest care from the best authorities, and illustrated with engravings
Classmark: Bedford Collection G038
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); International Gypsylogical Foundation (Bookseller)
Publisher: printed by W. P. Chubb, Holywell Street, Strand; and sold by Longman and Co. Pater Noster Row; Murray, Albermarle Street; Tegg, Cheapside, etc
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1831
Language: English
Size and medium: [4], 300, [4] pages, [3] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/732511
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019962997405181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Description to plates 1-2 on pp. 285-300.
Includes index.
Originally published in parts.
The frontispiece is engraved by Pickering.
Bedford Collection G038 copy wanting frontispiece.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G038: contemporary quarter cloth, grey paper over boards, printed spine label.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G038: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HA/23. Bookseller's printed label on front pastedown: John Bumpus, Cheap Bookseller No 183 Fleet Street, London. Nineteenth-century MS. annotations on front flyleaf giving page references for recipes in this item.
Access and usage
Access
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