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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. J R R Tolkein (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Second, revised edition, rebound in green calf to marbled boards.an interesting early cookbook with the occasional foxing and smudge but generally clean and tightly bound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Printed by T Wilson and R Spence For J Mawman (illustrator). Third Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in full brown leather (calf Binding) with gilt lettering to spine and with further gilt decorations along spine.Gilt Lined borders are present to the outer boards.Marbled Ednpapers.The book has no previous names or inscriptions present.Complete with b&w frontispiece of pig entitled 'Transmigration' There is some rubbing to spine tips and corners of the book.Binding holds firm with just a hint slight weakness to the front guttern hinge join.The contents of the book remain ckean internally with just an odd smudge mark sporadically to page margins.Very decnt copy then of this uncommon and early cookery title with lots of varied and interesting recipes.Small 8vo 284pp Third Edition [1806].

Leather-bound. Condition: Good. Duodecimo. Original mottled calf (7 1/4 x 4 1/4); (43 cm. x 25 cm.). Contrasting red spine label with gilt lettering. Some spotting and light foxing throughout, but not to obscure. 310 pp., followed by a 22 pp. separately paginated section entitled "Men and Manners", comprising 267 aphorisms, offering advice from the economic, to the political, health-related, to the moral, and perhaps even the ridiculous. A few gems: No. 156" A book-worm is a critic without a soul"; "Do not blame a man for hard drinking, if he belongs to a thirsty family"; "a lady who has some reason to be offended with the perfidy of her lover, should be warned against throwing herself into the arms of the first man who bhaves civilly to her". Finally, "The universe is the wise man's library" Partridge Soup; Sheep's Head Broth; To dress a Beef Steak on the Moors; A Hare Soup ("Cut an old hare into pieces,and put it together with a knuckle of veal,into a jug."); Ebonized Woodcocks; a Sublingual Soup; "This work being a Collection of the most approved Culinary Receipts,without order or method, I flatter myself that the correct Housekeeper will not deem it the less worthy on that account." "Take the caul sent in with a leg of veal, and put it into a long or round pot, leaving a considerble portion of it to hang over; put upon it a layer of the flitch part of bacon; then a layer of high-seasoned force-meat;then a layer of veal, but as for collops;and in this manner proceed till the pot be filled. The Fifth Edition, Considerably Enlarged.

Condition: Very Good. Frontispiece (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original boards, new cloth spine with printed label, endpapers clean, small book seller's label on bottom of rear pastedown. Frontispiece of a pig, trimmed, slight foxing to title page, all other contents clean. Very nice condition for its age.