Murray's Modern Domestic Cookery Book. Modern Domestic cookery: Based o the Well-Known Work of Mrs Rundell, but Including all the Recent Improvements in the Culinary Art.

A pleasing revised edition of Murray's Domestic Cookery, with copious in-text vignettes. A pleasing early, revised edition of Murray's Modern Domestic Cookery, by an anonymous Lady, first published in 1851.Based on Maria Eliza Kettleby Rundell's A New System of Domestic Cookery, which first appeared in 1806.Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding.With an engraved frontis, appealing in-text vigentte illustrations and numerous fascinating charts for calcuating meat prices, bread and flour measurements, and working out daily wages.An excellent updated edition of Rundell's seminal work. Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, in good condition. With light bumping to cloth and scattered marks to boards. Cloth lifting slightly at lower spine. Internally, firmly bound. Hinge strained at front board and occasionally throughout the text block. Pages clean and bright, mild age toning. Very Good.