Hooper Mrs E (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 56 pages (complete). A homely production. Stapled spine (secure and sure). The cover is creased, worn and scuffed. Inside, the pages are comfortable, worn, confident, clean, clear and genial. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cloth. Condition: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). A delightful collection of six late-eighteenth- to early-nineteenth-century cookery works, featuring a wide range of contemporary recipes. Collection comprised of:(1876) Domestic Economy: A Class-Book for Girls - early edition;(1884) Breakfast Dishes by M. L. Allen - second edition;(1897) Nelson's Home Comforts by Mary Hooper;(1893) Liebig Company's Practical Cookery Book by Mrs. H. M. Young - first edition;(1901) Sweets & Supper Dishes by Mrs. De Salis - seventh impression;[1908] The Pot-Luck Cookery Book by H. E. C.The three earliest works are bound in the publisher's original red cloth; Sweets & Supper Dishes is the publisher's original quarter-cloth edition; and the remaining two texts are bound in the publisher's original illustrated soft covers.The Pot-Luck Cookery Book is undated, dated from a copy held by the University of Cambridge Libraries.Liebig Company's Practical Cookery Book is charmingly illustrated throughout, and The Pot-Luck Cookery Book features illustrations to both paste downs.A delightful collection of six contemporary cookery and homemaking works, spanning the end of the nineteenth century up until the beginning of the twentieth century. Each text features a range of recipes across breakfast dishes, sweets and accessible home-cooked meals. The three earliest works are bound in the publisher's original red cloth; Sweets & Supper Dishes is the publisher's original quarter-cloth edition; and the remaining two texts are bound in the publisher's original illustrated soft covers. Signed by the previous owners to the front paste down and preface page of Domestic Economy and the front free endpaper of Breakfast Dishes. Small bookseller's stamp to the front paste down of Sweets & Supper Dishes. The rear endpaper and paste down of Domestic Economy is also annotated. Externally, generally smart with light to moderate bumping and rubbing, leading to slight fraying and loss of cloth at spine heads and tails, especially to The Pot-Luck Cookery Book. Light marking to boards, again more noticable to The Pot-Luck Cookery Book. Internally, relatively weak, with fragile hinges, most significantly to Nelson's Home Comforts, where the endpapers have been reinforced with tape, and to The Pot-Luck Cookery Book, where the front cover is very delicate and almost loose. Chip to the title page of Breakfast Dishes. Light sporadic spotting throughout, heavier to the first and last few pages of each volume, and a more sizeable mark to the last few pages of The Pot-Luck Cookery Book, extending through the second half of the book. Good Only. book.