Author: Anne Cobbett
Title: The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management
Description: London, Anne Cobbett, 1835 . First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first edition of home economist and publisher Anne Cobbett's detailed guide to 1830s cookery and successful household management. A very scarce first edition.A brilliant manual on English housekeeping by Anne Cobbett, advising the reader in great detail on all aspects of traditional cookery and the running of a nineteenth century household.As an experienced housekeeper, Cobbett offers her advice and instructions on the conduct of household affairs, laying out small ornament gardens, directions for cultivating herbs, and assisting poor neighbours, as well as various recipes.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and a small number in-text engravings.Dated 1835 via the British Library.With twelve pages of advertisements to the rear.With the pencil inscription of M. A. Martin to the front pastedown.Rebacked, retaining the original endpapers.With the bookplate of Jill Norman to front free endpaper. Norman was an editor at Penguin, and worked to expand their publication of food and wine books. She was good friends with Elizabeth David, who was greatly influenced by Boulestin. Rebacked in quarter cloth, retaining the original paper covered boards. Retaining the original endpapers. Light fading to back strip. Minor loss to age toned paper spine label. Bump to spine tail. Rear joint starting, with board firmly held. Boards age toned. Front hinge strained but firmly held. Inscription to front pastedown, bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, binding lightly strained to rear, otherwise firmly held. Pages bright and generally clean, with spotting to frontispiece. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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