Item #18693 Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts: Constituting A Complete Practical Library. Colin Mackenzie.
Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts: Constituting A Complete Practical Library.

Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts: Constituting A Complete Practical Library.

Philadelphia & Pittsburgh: James Kay Jun., John Kay, 1831. Fourth American edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 456pp, Appendix, Index. The Appendix, "instructions in the art of carving" with wood block illustrations in the text. With a long section (pp122 - 138) on Wines beginning with "To Make British Wines" and ending with "Another test for lead in wine". Another section on Brewing, beginning with instructions on how to "fit up a small brewhouse", brown stout, London ale, Welsh ale, Burton ale, Ringwood ale, Nottingham ale, Dorchester ale, Edinburgh ale, sugar beer, bran beer, cheap beer, beer from pea shells, etc etc. Full calf covers, quite rubbed, spine label cracked but still legible. Internally, scattered foxing. Covers agriculture, bees, bleaching, brewing, calico printing, carving at table, cements, confectionary, cookery, crayons, dairy, diseases, distillation, dying, enameling, engraving, farriery, food, gardening, gilding, glass, health, inks, jewelers' pastes, lithography, medicines, metallurgy, oil colors, oils, painting, pastry, perfumery, pickling, pottery, preserving, scouring, silk, silk worms, silvering, tanning, trees, varnishing, water colors, wines and more. Very good overall. Item #18693

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