Cookery Anonymous (3 results)

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Orig. printed wrappers. v.g. (28)pp. The first edition was London-published by Samuel Gilbert in 1842 and this is the only other edition on Copac; both are BL only. Information and recipes for making the most of food: 'That very nice dish known as "toad-on-the-hole", although somewhat expensive, yet serves well for a Sunday dinner; as, being sent to the baker, it will not prevent the wife from going to church.' The dish is made of 'any kind of meat' (rather than sausages as now) at a total cost of 1s. 2d., including a penny-ha'penny for baking.…

FIRST EDITION 1814, 12mo, approximately 170 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, pages: [3], 4-24, [25]-232, page 20 is wrongly numbered 24, the jump in pagination is in all copies, nothing is missing, bound in the original publisher's drab boards, modern printed paper label to spine, gatherings untrimmed and trimmed. Boards slightly worn at corners, armorial bookplate of William Middleton of Crowfield Hall Suffolk on front pastedown, front endpaper partly cracked, endpapers and title page slightly foxed and slightly spotted, pronounced horizontal wrinkle to last few pages, otherwise a very good clean tight copy. The work is a history of the pleasures of dining and drinking from classical times to the 18th century, dwelling particularly on France and then England but also reviewing customs in Russia, Italy and Germany. He names many writers on cookery throughout the period covered. Oxford, English Cookery Books, page 142; Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 555, listing only the second edition which was entitled: Gastronomy: or, the School for Good Living (1822); not in Cagle. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…