Modern Cookery, In All Its Branches; Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, which have been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness
Acton, ELiza
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1847. Early Edition The sixth edition, in which are added, directions for carving. 12mo. xlviii,608pp, followed by a 32 page publishers catalogue dated January, 1847. Original brown T-grain cloth embossed in blind on the boards, and in gilt on the spine with title and depictions of birds and game ready for cooking. Illustrated with 8 full page engraved plates as well as illustrations in text, Cloth lightly worn and sunned; plates foxed; light soil to contents, else this is a very good copy. With an ownership name dated 1847. Very good Hardcover (Item ID: 17153)
$500.00