Ex-library copy with usual stamps, etc, and title page has been removed. Cover heavily rubbed and also marked; p13/14 is disattached, pages are all tanned and a few marked, else textblock is sound and tight, and all appears to be present. No dustwrapper. There are a number of things laid in, including several flowers which have been pressed in the book. Not a particularly pretty copy, but still explains how to clean an oil painting with a potato, that a good way to be rid of mice is to keep a cat, as well as recipes for bits of animals usually not knowingly eaten nowadays.