The London Art of Cookery, And Housekeeper's Complete Assistant, On a New plan. Made Plain and Easyto the Understanding of Every Housekeeper, Cook and Servant in the Kingdom... The Seventh Edition. With The Addition of Many New and Elegant Receipts in the Various Branches of Cookery.
by FARLEY, John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker. London. 1792. Scatcherd and Whitaker. 1792. Seventh edition. Contemporary full calf, very worn and rubbed. Leather rubbed from corners, two vertical cracks along spine, boards crudely stitched onto spine. Inner hinges split. Engraved frontis. and all 12 plates present. Ownership name in an 18th century hand. Pages browned, occasionally foxed. Apart from these faults a useful copy of a scarce item.
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- Bookseller
- Addyman Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94045
- Title
- The London Art of Cookery, And Housekeeper's Complete Assistant, On a New plan. Made Plain and Easyto the Understanding of Every Housekeeper, Cook and Servant in the Kingdom... The Seventh Edition. With The Addition of Many New and Elegant Receipts in the Various Branches of Cookery.
- Author
- FARLEY, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker. Lo
- Keywords
- FOOD and DRINK 18th century cookery early cookery
- Bookseller catalogs
- FOOD and DRINK;
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine
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- Foxed
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