Pp.xx,512(2) + 6pp. adverts.; includes the preface to the 7th. ed. of 1823; a very good uncut copy with large margins in modern morocco-backed marbled boards, lettered in gold. 'The Author has patiently pioneered through more than two hundred cookery books before he set about recording these results of his own Experiments!!!'. Oxford pp.145/6 records 11 editions up to 1840 but not this one. Cookery Domestic Science Cookery.

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Title: The Cook's Oracle; containing Receipts for Plain Cookery on the most economical plan for private families: also the art of composing. Broths, Gravies, Soups, Sauces. containing also A Complete System of Cookery for Catholic Families. A New Edition.
Publisher: Cadell and Co.
Publication Date: 1829
Binding: Hardcover

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