Beschreibung:

The French Cook. A System of Fashionable and Economical Cookery, for the use of English Families, 9th edition, enlarged, W.H. Ainsworth, 1827, lithographed portrait frontispiece, 8 engraved plates of bills of fare (with some light offsetting), untrimmed, modern quarter calf gilt, together with other early 19th century cookery interest, including W.A. Henderson, The Housekeeper's Instructor, 17th edition, corrected by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie, printed for Thomas Kelly [1823], S. Freeman, The Ladies Friend, or, Complete Physical Library..., 3rd edition, printed for the author, [1785?], defective copy, John Armstrong The Young Woman's Guide to Virtue, Economy, and Happiness, 3rd edition, Newcastle upon Tyne, circa 1820, [Mrs. Randle], A New System of Domestic Cookery, new edition, corrected, 1819, Richard Dolby, The Cook's Dictionary and Housekeeper's Directory, new edition, 1833, Alexis Soyer, The Modern Housewife, or Menagere, 1849, Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual, 1842, Anon, The Young Woman's Companion: or, Frugal Housewife, Manchester, 1811, John Hill The Family Herbal, 1812, & Bonington Moubray, A Practical Treatise on Breeding, Rearing, and Fattening All Kinds of Domestic Poultry, 7th edition, 1834, mostly bound in contemporary or later calf, mainly 8vo (12)