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Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since November 23, 1999
Scarce early cookery book, quite comprehensive, including menus ('Bills of Fare'), somewhat vague recipes, notes on spices, brewing, preservation, various fruits & vegetables, preserving, lists of things in season each month; kitchen poisons, detecting adulteration of bread & flour; purity of water; appendix on rearing poultry, dairying & gardening. Hardcover, full tan leather, no titling. Worn & rubbed; hinges split externally but mended internally with an archival linen tape; corners bumped, head of spine chipped; name (M Weller) on title page; ink stains on a few pages. Text clean; [20], 422 + 25 page appendix, page of publisher's other books; 19 page index. Seller Inventory # n0374
Title: The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and ...
Publisher: C. Whittingham, London
Publication Date: 1801
Binding: Full Leather
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Eighth Edition
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
pp. iv, (xvi), 422, 26 Appendix, (xix) Index, (i) blank, 16 Catalogue [dated July 1, 1806]. Contemporary sheep rebacked, boards with signs of wear at corners and edges, occasional old ink scribble in the margins, contents good, a nice copy overall. Seller Inventory # 52889
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Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
8vo .pp.422, 26 appendix +19p. index. This Edition is expanded and indexed and has many extra receipts. Full calf. boards are tree calf and the spine has been under backed with raised bands and title label. The foreword reads" It is certain that a woman never appears to greater advantage than at the head of a well regulated table,which should always be so supplied so that the unexpected visit of a friend,or even a stranger,should occasion no inconvenience or confusion.Cookery, Domestica and general Household Management at the turn of the century. Seller Inventory # 18475
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