The Practice of Cookery and Pastry Adapted to the Business of Every-day Life. Fifth Edition, greatly Enlarged and Improved.
Published by To be Had of the Authoress. Printed by Thomas Constable, Edinburgh, 1862
- Hardcover
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Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United KingdomMcNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB
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8vo, pp. xiv, 240, xv-xv, [i]. Contemporary half black calf, dark green pebbled cloth boards, spine divided by raised bands between double blind rules, red morocco label. Some scattered soiling and toning. Rubbed, boards marked, some wear to extremities. Binder?s ticket of M. Paterson, Edinburgh, to pastedown. Mrs Williamson ran a cookery school on Dundas Street Edinburgh, and produced this book to complement her lessons, with the first edition in 1849. It received regular updates and reprints for the rest of the century, latterly by her son, with a 22nd edition appearing in 1906.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Practice of Cookery and Pastry Adapted to the Business of Every-day Life. Fifth Edition, greatly Enlarged and Improved.
- Author
- Williamson, Mrs I.
- Publisher
- To be Had of the Authoress. Printed by Thomas Constable, Edinburgh
- Publication year
- 1862
- Binding
- Hardcover
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McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Established in 1957, McNaughtan's Bookshop is the oldest secondhand and antiquarian bookshop in Scotland. Situated near the top of Edinburgh's Leith Walk thoroughfare, we are within easy walking distance of Waverley Station and the central bus terminal.
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Derek Walker and Anna Fomicheva t/a McNaughtan's Bookshop
3a & 4a Haddington Place
Edinburgh, United Kingdom EH7 4AE
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All books listed subject to prior sale. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association and bound by their Code of Conduct. Anything found to be not as described may be returned for a full refund. This does not affect or limit statutory rights of return under EU distance selling regulations. McNaughtan's Bookshop is a trading name of the partnership Derek Walker & Anna Fomicheva, VAT reg. GB218182907. Please address any communication to McNaughtan's Bookshop, 3a & 4a Haddington Place, Edinburgh, EH7 4AE. Telephone +44 (0)131 556 5897. Email info@mcnaughtans.co.uk.
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