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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

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection G038

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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

Level: Item

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.

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