THE ICE BOOK, being a compendious and concise history of everything connected with ice. From its First Introduction into Europe as an Article of Luxury to the Present Time;

MASTERS, Thomas.

Published by London Simpkin Marshall & Co Stationer's court Ludgate Street, 1844

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TITLE CONTINUED: with an Account of the Artificial Manner of Producing Pure and Solid Ice, and a Valuable Collection of the Most Approved Recipes for Making Superior Water Ices and Ice Creams at a Few Minutes' Notice, followed by a quote "Tut! Tut! thou art all ice, Thy Kindness freezes". Shakespeare, Richard III - Act IV. FIRST EDITION 1844. ONE GATHERING OF SIX LEAVES MISSING, ALL REPLACED WITH GOOD FACSIMILES. 8vo, approximately 230 x 140 mm, 9 x 5½ inches, 6 lithographed plates illustrating Thomas Masters' Patent Freezing Apparatus, plus 2 plates illustrating a rotary knife-cleaner with 2 pages of text and followed by 3 folding plates of advertisments, pages: [i-v], vi-xii, [1], 2-198, [6], [2], half-title present, bound in original publisher's brown pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine, small gilt illustration to both covers, blind decoration to edges of covers, original yellow endpapers, small amorial bookplate of Cullen House Library to first pastedown, bookbinder's small ticket to foot of rear pastedown. Slight wear to head and tail of spine, spine faded and some uneven fading to covers, ink name to head of half-title, ink shelf number and name to first yellow endpaper, minor pale foxing and small pale stains. A good clean copy with no loose pages (6 pages in facsimile as noted). See: William R. Cagle, A Matter of Taste, A Bibliographical Catalogue of International Books on Food and Drink, pages 624-625, No. 866; Katherine Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 315; Arnold Whitaker Oxford, English Cookery Books to the Year 1850, page 174; A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, Volume 4, page 78, their copy calls for an Addendum slip between prelims and text, this is not present in our copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. POSTAGE AT COST.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE ICE BOOK, being a compendious and concise history of everything connected with ice. From its First Introduction into Europe as an Article of Luxury to the Present Time
• Publisher: London Simpkin Marshall & Co Stationer's court Ludgate Street
• Publication Date: 1844
• Binding: Hardcover