Lot 1098 , Smith, Eliza - The Compleat Housewife: Or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion...Seventh edition

Smith, Eliza - The Compleat Housewife: Or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion...Seventh edition, with large additions... 6 folded plates, head and tail piece decorations, decorated initial letters; contemp. panelled calf, newly rebacked with panelled spine and red label. printed for J. and J. Pemberton, 1736; Raffald, Elizabeth - The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. Written purely from practice... 13th edition. portrait frontis. and 3 folded plates; recently rebound gilt lettered cloth. 1806 (2)
£160-200

Condition:
1) sl. leather wear, but good spine, e/ps and blanks replaced, title darkened and neatly repaired fore-margin, some other slight spots etc., pp. 339-42 stain with loss 2/3 words, few stains section 2, G7 tear lower margin (avoids text), 1 plt. clean tear no loss. (16), 352,xvpp.; 1776 ownership head of preface. 2) lt. title browning, mostly clean o/w, e/ps and blanks replaced, frontis. partly coloured (5),iv,397pp.

Sold for £180