The Family Receipt-Book or Universal Repository of Useful Knowledge and Experience in all the various Branches of Domestic Economy. Including Scarce, Curious and Valuable, Select Receipts, and Choice Secrets

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Published by Oddy and Co., London, 1810

About this Item

A scarce early 19th-century book of diverse recipes and household hints from around the globe. The first edition of this scarce volume.Bound in half calf, with marbled boards.Undated, dated from copies held institutionally.A substantial 'Universal Repository' offering a practical collection of receipts, the most interesting of which have international origins - Turkish coffee, soy sauce, and curry powder among the recipes described here as well as German egg soup and an Arabian method of preserving eggs. Also with hints on gilding, varnishing, fowling, brewing and perfumery, as well as remedies for 'bile indigestion and giddiness', 'gout and rheumatism', and a 'salve for a green wound, a burn or a scald'.Anonymously penned.Loosely inserted to this work is hand-typed pamphlet dated 1939 titled 'Salop County Council Agricultural Education Sub-Committee: Cultivation of Special Vegetables and Salads' and a charming pop-out bookmark-style menu from a 1928 dinner held for "The Most Noble Order of Crusaders". Bound in half calf, with marbled boards. Externally, generally good. Front and rear boards detached but present. Rubbing to the extremities and fading to the boards. Minor loss to head of spine and extremities. Internally, front and rear free endpapers are detached but present. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the occasional spot, heaviest towards the front and rear. Creasing to the first and last few leaves. Fair.

Seller Inventory # 986Y45

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Family Receipt-Book or Universal Repository of Useful Knowledge and Experience in all the various Branches of Domestic Economy. Including Scarce, Curious and Valuable, Select Receipts, and Choice Secrets
• Publisher: Oddy and Co., London
• Publication Date: 1810
• Binding: Leather
• Illustrator: None
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fair
• Book Type: book