SOYER, Alexis.

The modern housewife: or, menagere: comprising nearly one thousand receipts for the economic and judicious preparation of every meal of the day, and those for the nursery and sick room; with minute directions for family management in all its branches.

London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1849 tenth thousand. 8vo. xvi, 442pp including 'Opinions of the press', publisher's adverts at rear including advert printed on coloured paper, portrait frontis, plate on tinted paper. Original decorated blind-stamped green cloth gilt, yellow eps, uncut. Extremes very lightly rubbed; spine a little browned; very light stains to rear board; frontis spotted.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 39391

Catalogue: Cookery

Keywords: Cookery Housekeeping

Alexis Soyer

The Modern Housewife, or, Menagere

London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co, 1855. Cloth. Alexis Soyer's conclusive Victorian cookery work, Soyer being the most famous cook in Victorian England. An extensive work on housewifery, a useful guide to the housewife with nearly one thousand recipes detailed throughout.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and five plates.By Alexis Soyer, the most celebrated cook of Victorian England.The thirty second thousand. Twelve pages of adverts.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored, with renewed endpapers. Externally, smart, with a few minor marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional scattered spot, heavier to the frontispiece. Neat repair to the margin of one of the leaves of the preface. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 908P33

Catalogue: Cookery

Keywords: The Modern Housewife, or, Menagere modern housework menagere alexis soyer modern housework cookery Not Stated