All About it: Or, the History and Mystery of Common Things

First edition of this quirky compendium which catalogues something fascinating or surprising about tea, coffee, fruit, spice, china, glass, leather, the human body, electricity, oils and so on... In very good condition in publisher’s decoratively embossed binding with gilt to spine. Just a little fraying to top and tail. A square copy, crisp and clean throughout. Advertisements to front and rear endpapers. Previous owner’s bookplate in the name of Harry H Hughes to front pastedown. 360 pp. including index.