The Universal Cook, and City and Country Housekeeper: Containing all the Various Branches of Cookery: The Different Methods of Dressing Butchers Meat, Poultry, Game, and Fish; and of Preparing Gravies, Cullices, Soups, and Broths

Full leather binding, rebacked retaining original title label. Tears to leather on rear board, boards restored, endpapers replaced. Former library copy with small square stamp to recto of frontis, verso of final plate and to several margins within the text. Single stamp with small withdrawn label to verso of title page. Complete with the half title page, portrait frontis (dated 1792), carving plate facing p320, and 12 Bill of Fare plates (one for each month). Foxing to plates, a few ink spots to prelims, clean text throughout. Originally published in 1792, a French language edition was issued in 1810. Bitting p94; Oxford p120. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. [28], 452.