Cookery Hints by Anon (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition, internally clean, contains many loose recipes hand-written or clipped from newspapers, 534pps with practical tips for housekeepers as well. Covers are thick boards with assorted glued papers with dubious appeal. Wide number of food categories covered from midwestern viewpoint.…

(Wakefield: R S Dyson & Co Ld nd 1950's?). First UK Edition. Softback. 44 pages (stapled). Simple recipes for Dyson's self-raising flour, plain white flour and wheatmeal flour. Recipes for Cakes, Pastry., Puddings and Miscellaneous and Savouries. VG indeed. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hard Cover. (London: Houlston and Sons, [MCCCCLX 1860]). Fourth Thousand. [5], 10-248pp. Complete despite erratic pagination. Lacking the 4 final leaves of publisher's advertisements (but not sure whether they were included in this early edition). Original publisher's light-purple cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Brown coated end-papers. About VG. Rear hinge weak. Softening to the spine tips. Slightly faded spine. No book-plates and no inscriptions. Clean interior. A Victorian guide on how to behave at social functions and how to prepare and serve food at dinner parties. Looks very smart in its custom-made acetate wrapper. Photographs/scans available upon request.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 80, 9-248, (8) pp. Publisher's blind-stamped & gilt decorated cloth. Small area of stain to rear board. Ink owner's name to front endpaper. Some leaves age-darkened. Eight-page publisher's adverts at rear. Clean copy. 1860's volume but with later adverts. Small 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy bound in full brown leather boards with gold gilt lettering and decoration to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 672pp. B/w frontispiece, 7 b/w plates. Not library copy, no inscriptions, creasing and tears to front endpaper, missing rear endpaper, some rubbing to board and spine edges. (55/4). …