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Cottage Economy.
London: Printed for J.M. Cobbett, 1823.
New Edition. Unpaginated. Frontis (grasses), title leaf, contents leaf; followed by [96pp] text. No preceding adverts. Some browning to title, frontis, and [I5-I7], but text generally clean. In very pretty new quarter calf with green marbled boards. Very Good.
Price: £140.00
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Take My Advice: A Book for Every Home: giving complete and trustworthy information on everything pertaining to daily life : household management, domestic cookery, brewing, distilling, domestic chemistry, medicine, clothing, gardening, law, trade and scientific facts, in-door and out-door games, domestic pets and pests, etiquette and manners, ladies' work, and something for everybody, etc.
London: James Blackwood & Co, n.d. [c.1872].
Thirty-sixth thousand. viii, 352pp, with text illustrations. Lacks free endpapers. In the style of 'Enquire Within Upon Everything'. Slight soiling to a few pages, otherwise contents very good. In the original blue cloth decorated in blind and titled in gilt: spine ends crimped and scuffed, slightly bumped and rubbed, but firm, and title clear. Scarce. VG.
Price: £40.00
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Mother, Child, and Home. A Problem of Today.
Lowestoft, F.Robinson & Co, n.d. [1914].
Presumed first edition. viii, 147pp, plus a guarded portrait frontis. With a foreword by the Rector of Lowestoft. In original green cloth binding, upper board lettered in gilt. Boards heavily damp-stained and slightly bent. Endpapers also stained, and frontis and title page slightly cockled at the inner bottom corner. Contents otherwise clean, and binding firm and serviceable. G-. Very uncommon.
Price: £25.00
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Good Manners.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1924].
First edition. 222pp. Some tanning to endpapers, page edges foxed, page surfaces clean and unmarked. 'Good Manners, says Lady Kitty Vincent, 'are the pneumatic tyres on the motor-car of life.' Firm, in the original binding of bright blue cloth titled in gilt. Spine bright, corners sharp, boards with some pale marks. In protected dust jacket, foxed and tanned, with some wear to edges. Nice copy of a title scarce in any edition. Very Good.
Price: £80.00
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The Toddler.
n.d. [1952].
Presumed first and only edition. 59pp, illustrated with photographs and line drawings, printed in sepia and pale blue. Unused Enquiry Form at back. Stapled booklet in lovely condition, charmingly produced and packed with sensible advice. 'Robin' is used throughout as the toddler's name in the scenarios described, this being the name of the writer's own child. All very clean, but with a knock near base of spine, otherwise a fine copy. Very Good+.
Price: £28.00
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