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Five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts : constituting a complete and universal practical library, and operative cyclopædia

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection G063 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Book

Title: Five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts : constituting a complete and universal practical library, and operative cyclopædia

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection G063

Creator(s): Mackenzie, Colin (1775?-1827)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Wardell, A (Former owner); Wardell, C (Former owner); Wardell, Elizabeth (Former owner)

Publisher: printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., and to be had of all booksellers

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1830

Language: English

Size and medium: iv, [5]-827 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/733941

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016503499705181

Description

Published also under title: A family library; or, Five thousand receipts in the useful and domestic arts.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G063 [another copy]: contemporary brown calf, gold tooled on front cover [Family library] and 5000 receipts on spine, binders waste faintly visible in endpapers.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G063 [another copy]: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HA/29. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: A & C Wardell from their affectionate Aunt C Filkin Augt 11th 1832. In a different hand beneath: given to Eliz[abe]th Wardell by her affec[tion]ate Aunt A Wardell Janry 1st 1848.

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