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Miles A.H.

The Household Oracle. A Popular Referee on Subjects of Household Enquiry. .Edited by Alfred H. Miles assisted by a Staff of Specialists. [First and Sole Edition].

Hutchinson, 1897

55.20 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1897
Author
Miles A.H.
Publishers
Hutchinson
Keyword
cookery, household management, domestic manuals, housework, a.h. miles, sports, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, the, household, oracle
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text, some almost imperceptible spotting on first and last few leaves; original cloth blocked in gilt, silver and blind, gilt back, sprinkled edges, joints lightly rubbed, boards very lightly age-marked else a remarkably clean, tight well-preserved copy. With front and rear trade advertisement endpapers, and advertisement left following front free endpaper. 'Miles' is astonishingly comprehensive in scope, including house building, buying and renting, furnishing, decoration, housekeeping, cookery, needlework, farming, gardening, medicine, law, world, history, British history, the calendar, standards, arithmetical tables, household amusements, games and so on. Very scarce, especially in this condition.