Bidspirit auction | Moore, R. Everybody's Guide; or,

Moore, R. Everybody's Guide; or, Things Worth Knowing. The World, New York, 1884. - This octavo volume is titled Everybody's Guide; or, Things Worth Knowing by R. Moore, published by The World in New York with an 1884 copyright by J. S. Ogilvie & Co. The work is a comprehensive reference manual comprising information, recipes, and tables for mechanics, merchants, lawyers, doctors, and farmers. The book is bound in half-leather over marbled paper boards, featuring a vertical tree-pattern in brown and tan tones. A gold-tooled decorative border frames the marbled panels. The leather spine is decorated with gold-tooled floral motifs and two black leather labels; the upper label is lettered EVERYBODY'S GUIDE. BY R. MOORE. and the lower label reads THE WORLD. The text block edges are stained red. The interior contains numerous wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams, including mechanical drawings of locomotive valve motions and beekeeping apparatus such as the Climax Bee Hive and American Bee Hive with Climax Improvement. A contemporary pencil inscription on the light-blue front endpaper reads B. French / Eddytown / N. Y. and the rear endpaper bears the penciled numbers 119 / 340. The title page includes a vignette of an oil lamp resting upon a book. 8.25 inches by 5.5 inches. Fair to good. The binding shows significant shelf wear, including fraying and material loss to the leather at the head and tail of the spine. There is rubbing and edge wear to the boards and corners, along with surface scratches to the marbled paper. Internally, the pages exhibit age-related toning, minor foxing, and occasional corner creases. The binding remains structurally sound.