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WESTMAN, Habbakuk O. [pseud. ýEWBANK, Thomas]

The Spoon:

with upwards of one hundred illustrations, Primitive, Egyptian, Roman, Mediæval, and Modern... Being a part of the Transactions of the Society of Literary and Scientific Chiffoniers.

Stock Code
101063
London, Wiley & Putnam, 1845
£275

A scarce work, chronicling the evolution and implementation of the humble spoon over millennia, on behalf of the presumably fictitious Society of Literary and Scientific Chiffoniers.

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Description

First London edition; 8vo; 8 lithographed plates, some foxing and oxidising, armorial bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving contemporary spine, edge wear.

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