The Housekeeper's Receipt-Book, or, the Repository of Domestic Knowledge

1815

Published by the Editor

8vo, in Solander Box.

Description:

A practical compendium of early nineteenth-century domestic management, offering a comprehensive collection of recipes and household advice. Housed in a lovely modern solander box in a modern smart binding. Contains recipes for domestic cooking, cooking for the sick and brewing. As well as chapters on house keeping such as kitchen gardening and family medicine. 7 plates to rear. 

Condition:

Good Condition. Quarter bound in red leather and housed in a smart solander box. Marble paper covered boards. Binding is firm and contents are clean with some minor professional repairs to paper. Light tanning to pages. Lack frontis but 7 plates to rear. Boards are clean with no sign of wear. Solander box is good with minor marking to exterior and light marking inside.

Ulysses

James Joyce

1930

Shakespeare and Company

11th Printing

Small 4to, 17 x 21cms.

Description:

11th and last Shakespeare company printing of Joyce's magnun opus, Ulysses, maintaining the iconic blue paper styling of Sylvia Beach's legendary first edition print run during a period when the book remained banned in Britain and the United States. It was not legally circulated in the UK until 1936 published by The Bodley Head. Copies retaining the original blue wraps of Shakespeare & co are exceedingly rare most early printings of Ulysses are rebound in later boards. A truly authentic copy.

Condition:

Good condition. Blue paper covers with white lettering to covers. Book is free of any previous owner inscriptions. Binding is firm. Pages are tanned to edges. Curling and dog-earring to text block edge. Covers have some loss to edges with tearing and chipping. Light loss to spine ends. Notable loss to rear cover bottom corner. Creasing to edges. Scuffing to spine. Please refer to photos for a more accurate look at the covers.

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

1857

Michel Levy

Third Edition

Small 8vo

pp.[x] + p.490 + pp.[i]

Description:

Realist masterpiece. Published in the same year as the first edition. Flaubert's novel was banned after its serialisation in 1856, but Flaubert was acquitted and the first, second and third edition followed in 1857. Rare 3rd edition.

Condition:

Good/Fair Condition. Full contemporary calf with gilt tooling to spine. Marble edges. Front end paper to frontis is slightly loose. Pen inscription to front end paper and blue pen marginalia to p.1-5 and occasional light pen marking throughout. Moderate wear to boards with rubbings to edges and bumping to corners. Light peeling to leather on edges. Marking to spine with some light tanning. Text is in French.