The American Home Magazine
1938. hardcover. May 1938.
Cooking/Household
Cassells' Household Guide: Being a complete encyclopedia of domestic and social economy....
London: Cassell. Hardcover. c 1880. 4 vols in 2. Original half morocco showing some rubbing.Some discolouration on spine hinges. Colour plates and illustrations throughout of everything to manage the household.
Costume of the Ancients
Half Calf. c1812. Vol 1. Lacks title page. 52 pages of text. 125 [of 130] plates depicting ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian costumes - some have been hand-coloured. Half calf and marbled boards with some rubbing to boards.
The Domestic World. A Practical Guide. In All the Daily Difficulties of the Higher Branches of Domestic and Social Economy.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1878. Decorated Cloth. By the author of "Enquire Within." pp 396. Brown decorated cloth with gilt detailing. Rare.
The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. An Illustrated Journal, Combingin Practical Information, Instruction, and Amusement. Vols 3 & 4
London: S.O. Beeton, 1861. Orig. Cloth. Vols 3 & 4 bound together. Vol 3 missing tp. 9 hand-coloured fashion plates and 9 coloured and folding plates. Faded brown cloth binding, back hinge worn. Bookplate to pastedown.
Journal des Demoiselles
Paris: 1882. Unbound. 4 hand-coloured engraved images of ladies with children, depicting the fashion in France in 1882. In very good condition, with good colour.
Journal des Demoiselles
Paris: 1882. Unbound. 2 hand-coloured engraved images of ladies, depicting the fashion in France in 1882. In very good condition, with good colour.
Journal des Demoiselles
Paris: 1882. Unbound. 3 hand-coloured engraved images of groups of children, depicting the fashion in France in 1882. In very good condition, with good colour.
The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance.
London: G Henderson, 1842. No Binding. Printed wrappers, [5] adverts, engraved frontispiece, 9 plates (6 fashion hand-coloured), pp 343-442, [2]. Edges creased, otherwise very good. No. XLVIII, December 1842, including Supplement to Volume VIII. Very rare work of this sort in the original paper covers intact with all the hand-coloured.....
The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine. May - December 1852
London: Rogerson, 1852. Half Calf. pp.225-336;1-336. Royal 8vo. 9 hand-coloured fashion plates, steel engravings & illustrations in text, including images of children. Original green half calf. Wear at top of front joint. With marbled boards. Well illustrated with the hand-coloured plates, which are in very nice condition.
LES CHAPEAUX DE LA FEMME CHIC. 24me Annee. No 227
Paris: A. Louchel, 1936. Printed Wrapper. 8 pages of text and illustrations and 8 full colour lithographs showing hats from different designers. Original printed wrappers. Faint bookseller's stamp (The Fashion Bookery, Auckland) to rear wrapper. Rare.
Useful Hints for Labourers; selected from the publications of the Labourers' Friend Society, and republished under their direction.
London: John. W. Parker, 1844. Hardcover. iv, 151 pp, [8] adverts. original purple embossed cloth boards, some fading. Second series following on from the success of the first series, published under the auspices of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Interesting well-meaning 19th C information on cooking, beer and bread.....
Vegetable Substances, used for The Food of Man.
London: Charles Knight, 1832. Original Half Calf. pp.viii,396. Small 8vo. Numerous illustrations in text. Original half calf binding and marbled boards. Titling spine labels. In "The Library of Entertaining Knowledge" series. A very good copy in handsome original binding.
Weldons enclyclopedia of needlework
Waverley Book Co, 2000. 1st Ed. edition. hardcover. No dust jacket. Red embossed cloth with gilt lettering. Colour photographic frontispiece with black and white photographic plates throughout. Lettering remains bright and clear.
The Young Englishwoman. A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty Needlework Patterns.
London: Ward, Lock, 1868. Orig. Cloth. pp viii, 664. Illustrations. Original red cloth, showing wear. Numerous illustrations of fashion of the time, needlework projects and patterns. Rare.
Your Home
Macfadden, 1928. hardcover. August 1928. rare home magazine.
The People's Book of Modern Cookery With Additional Chapters on Cooking for Children, Cooking for Invalids, and the Digestibility of Different Foods
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. Thirty-Ninth Edition. Orig. Cloth. pp 500. Illustrated. Blue cloth binding with gilt pictorials to spine. Some age darkening to page edges, otherwise very good.
Au Bois Dore Ameublements
Paris: Au Bois Dore, 1950. Soft cover. pp.36 27cm x 21cm. Illustrated catalogue of household furniture from a long established (1900) Paris comapny. Includes price list for mail order and a detached typewritten letter from the company. Classic 1950s French furniture.
Le Grand Fabricant du Meuble. Meubles Modernes, Rustiques et de Style.
Paris: Au Bucheron. Soft cover. Pp.79 26.5cm x 18cm. c.1928. Illustrations of French furniture for studio, bed chambers, salon, showing furnished rooms. Soft cover is green, brown and cream and has pencil marks. Pages 45-46 detached from binding.
Everyday Costume in Britain - Earliest Times to 1900
London: Batsford, 1961. Original Cloth. pp 96. Many illustrations. Book good, cover worn. AD ref 188.
Beautiful Furntiure. Furniture catalogue
Sydney: Beard Watson & Co Ltd. Soft cover. Pp.40, 31cm x 24cm. Decorative cover. Colour illustrations of curtains. "Beard Watson's Beautiful Furniture - A Few Typical Selections." Illustrated furniture catalog from Beard Watson & Co Ltd, George Street, Sydney. c.1930s. Rare catalogue of colonial furniture in great condition...
The Book of Household Management comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachmen, valet... also sanitary, medical, and legal memorabilia...
London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1888. Roan. pp.xlvi,3 ,1644,advertising catalogue. Coloured frontispiece. 13 (of 14) plates, wood engravings & numerous illustrations in text. Original decorated red roan, with green boards. A good copy in original decorated binding, some repairs as binding's very fragile.
The Young Englishwoman. A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty Needlework Patterns.
London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1872. Half Calf. pp viii, 664. 11 fashion plates (of 12) Small 4to. Original green half roan with marbled boards. Inscriptions from previous owners to front paste down and ffep. Numerous illustrations of fashion of the time, needlework projects and patterns. Rare with the coloured.....
Mrs. Beeton's All About Cookery
London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1911. New Edition. Decorated Cloth. pp 584 + adverts. 12 coloured plates numerous other illustrations. Decorated brown cloth binding. Adverts to endpapers. A nice copy.
The Home Designer Magazine Book of House Plans, A Plan Book of California Homes
Oakland California: Dixon & Hillen, 1922. Soft cover. pp. 35. 23cm X 15cm. Original wrapper with coloured drawing on cover, illustrations include house plans numbered from 75 to 126, with photographs of built houses, and designs for garages. One page has a torn corner.