Search Results: a new system of domestic cookery by rundell mrs maria

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London, Thomas, Allman [n.d., ca. 1870]., 1870. Small 8vo. Engraved frontispiece; engraved titled with vignette. 11 plates. 419 pages + 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. Modern marbled boards; gilt stamped red leather spine label. Very good, fresh. No signatures or bookplates.. Hardcover.

London: John Murray, 1822. New Edition [about 4th]. Very Good. With engravings showing some preparations and sectioning. The most influential and important early 19th century English cookbook; first published in 1806. Bound in contemporary marbled papers over boards with a leather spine and corners. Gilded banding on the spine and a black label with gilded lettering. General wear and rubbing to edges and covers with scuffing. Internally split between 'Direction to the Binder' and 'Contents' but all pages present and attached. Title and Advertisement page trimmed at the top (1/4 inch, no impact to text or content). Pages: (52) 348     Dimensions: 6¾ x 4¼ x 1¼  .

Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1861. Very good plus.. Scarce Canadian edition of Rundell's guide to household management, first published by John Murray in 1806 to great and enduring popularity - with an incredible long folding wood-engraved frontispiece. The house of John Murray, 19th-century publishing titan and notorious destroyer of Byron's memoirs, owed a significant portion of its early financial success to Rundell's best-selling handbook, the first such book to be so thorough and well-ordered in its recipes and instructions on domestic economy. The author initially asked no payment for the publication of her manuscript, but the "dreadful blunders" left uncorrected in early editions along with Murray's cavalier and contemptuous disregard of her concerns for the text eventually drove her to offer a revised version to a rival publisher. After some legal proceedings, Rundell was left with a £2000 settlement and immortal fame, but without the rights to her own book. A classic. 5'' x 3''. Original… Read More