ALEXIS SOYER - The Modern Housewife or Menagere: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts

London, Simkin, Marshall & Co. 1849, Second Edition. Hardcover, 130mm x 190mm. Book, Heavy general wear to cloth with some fraying at corners and ends of spine. Sunning to spine. Browning to edges of page-block. Split to front hinge. Rear hinge slack. All pages secure. Former owner's detail and inscription dated 1849 to front pastedown. Two brief handwritten recipes to ffep. Light foxing to preliminaries and a few scattered marks elsewhere, but really very clean internally. 441pp. Fair/No Jacket.