Descrizione

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.