Author: BISHOP, FREDERICK
Title: The Wife's Own Book of Cookery, Containing Upwards of Fifteen Hundred Original Receipts, Prepared with Great Care, and a Proper Attention to Economy, and Embodying All the Latest Improvements in the Culinary Art;...
Description: London: Ward and Lock, N.D.. First Edition. Original blindstamped gilt decorated boards. With wood-engraved frontispiece depicting two maids working in a kitchen & half-title depicting wildfowl, folding plate between pp. 384-385 depicting the Royal Kitchen in Windsor & numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout. Publisher's advertisements on final two pages. Yellow endpapers. Protective fly-leaf between frontispiece & half-title. Some foxing to verso front free endpaper & recto frontispiece, pp.384 & 385 & folding plate. Slight foxing to frontispiece, protective fly-leaf & title page & some other page & recto back free endpaper. Some pages creased (most likely when used) Slight soiling to back cover & light soiling to spine, small stain on back cover. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. Over-all an attractive looking copy for its age (1850s). Bitting, 40 ; 19.3 x 13 x 2.9 cms; xvi, 398, (2) pages; Full Title: The Wife's Own Book of Cookery, Containing Upwards of Fifteen Hundred Original Receipts, Prepared with Great Care, and a Proper Attention to Economy, and Embodying all the Latest Improvements in the Culinary Art; Accompanied by Important Remarks and Counsel on the Arrangement and Well-Ordering of the Kitchen, Combined with Useful Hints on Domestic Economy. The Whole Based on Many Years' Constant Practice and Experience; and Addressed to Private Families As Well As the Highest Circles. By Frederick Bishop. Late Cuisinier to St. James's Palace, Early Grey the Marquis of Stafford, Baron Rothschild, Earl Norbury, Captain Duncombe, and Mary of the First Families in the Kingdom. Illustrated with 250 descriptive engravings. Very Good with no dustjacket .

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