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.

Moonfleet

J. Meade Falkner

1899

Edward Arnold

Second Edition

8vo

Description:

The second edition of Falkner's classic smuggling adventure.

Set in the mid-eighteenth century on the Dorset coast, the story follows young John Trenchard as he becomes embroiled in the dangerous activities of local smugglers and the hunt for a legendary lost diamond. The book is widely noted for its atmospheric depiction of the English seaside and its careful blend of historical detail with folklore.

Condition:

Fair/Good Condition. Red cloth with coat of arms vignette to front board and gilt titles to spine. Front end paper is pasted down to front pastedown. Binding is firm and pages are lightly tanned. More tanning to half-title. Boards have some wear with marking to spine and front board top right corner. Light holing to front board as pictured. Fraying to spine ends. Light tanning to spine. Light bumping to corners.

The Poems of Oscar Wilde

John Quinn's Bookplate

1906

F.M. Buckles & Company

8vo

Description:

Poems of Oscar Wilde previously owned by John Quinn, Irish-American bibliophile who helped W.B. Yeats found the Abbey Theatre.

A lovely scarce collection of Wilde's poetry in 2 volumes with John Quinn's bookplate to the pastedown of both volumes. The bookplate was designed by Jack B Yeats. Quinn was a successful New York lawyer who gave frequent financial support to Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot. He arranged for Eliot's Wasteland to be published in the US and Quinn purchased a manuscript of Ulysses as it was being written, enabling Joyce to finish the novel. Quinn was no doubt one of the chief patrons of the early 20th century modernist movement and this book would have sat in his vast collection.

Condition:

Good Condition. Blue cloth covered boards with lettering plates to spine and front board. Bindings are firm. Gilt top-edge.Pages are lightly spotted. Wonderful rough-cut edges. Book plate to both volume's front pastedown. Boards are good with slight loss to cloth on top-edge of volume one. General light marking and fraying to spine ends.