Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book: Containing Directions for Purchasing, Preserving, and Cooking Every Kind of Meat, Fish, Poultry, Game, &c. &c. Complete Art of Trussing and Carving, Preparing Soups, Sauces, Gravies, and Made Dishes; and of Potting, Pickling, &c. The Branches of Pastry and Confectionary: and a Complete Family Physician. With Instructions to Servants, for the Best Methods of Performing Their Duties: The Art of Making British Wines, Brewing, Baking &c.

Hammond, Elizabeth.

Published by London: Printed for Dean & Munday and A. K. Newman & Co. n.d. [ca. 1830].

About this Item

Seventh edition, 12mo. (169x111mm), pp: [iv],[i]-iv+[5]-287,[1], engraved frontispiece, engraved title page with a cartouche and printed title page, and 4 plates, complete, owner inscribed in ink (indecipherably name)…. 1833 to head of printed title page, engraved title page offset from frontispiece. Contemporary black half calf, marbled boards, spine with gilt ruled raised bands with title label absent, hinges rubbed and split however sound, tight and very good with the contents very good. An uncommon edition collates as the University of Leeds copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book: Containing Directions for Purchasing, Preserving, and Cooking Every Kind of Meat, Fish, Poultry, Game, &c. &c. Complete Art of Trussing and Carving, Preparing Soups, Sauces, Gravies, and Made Dishes; and of Potting, Pickling, &c. The Branches of Pastry and Confectionary: and a Complete Family Physician. With Instructions to Servants, for the Best Methods of Performing Their Duties: The Art of Making British Wines, Brewing, Baking &c.
• Publisher: London: Printed for Dean & Munday and A. K. Newman & Co. n.d. [ca. 1830].
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good