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Page from William Tarn and Co.s Illustrated Catalogue: wit

William Tarn and Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue, containing 202 pages including the front and back covers, with black and white and colour illustrations including designs for ceilings and dados, and hall, breakfast room, dining room, library and drawing room furniture, measuring 24 x 31.4 cm, produced for William Tarn & Co. and published in London c.1890-1900. Date: c.1890-1900

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Fire shovel, reverse

Cast polished steel fire shovel with a decorative brass handle, a floral finial and a bell-shaped blade with a pierced flower motif, part of a set of fire tools including tongs and a poker, each with a registration lozenge mark and the letter H which dates them to 1843, possibly made in Sheffield by H & W Turner. Date: 1843

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The Complete Practical Cook

Book, The Complete Practical Cook; Or, A New System Of the Whole Art and Mystery of Cookery, by Charles Carter, London: printed for W. Meadows, in Cornhill; C. Rivington, in St Paul's Church-Yard; and R. Hett in the Poultry, 1730. The book is a quarto voulme with 60 copper plates of table layout diagrams, recased in its original panelled, blind tooled calf boards. The front end paper is inscribed Worthington / Cowley House'. 26 x 20.5 cm

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