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London: Johnson, Chapman and Bell, 1852. Hardcover. Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Good. Publishers cloth. Boards a little loose. Toned and foxed.

New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Brown leatherette boards with gilt titles. Small indentation on front board, otherwise fine. Interior tight and unmarked. 352 pp.. First Thus. Leatherette. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Cookbook.

John Murray, 1847-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. liv, 571. : ill. ; 17 cm. (Lacking title page and page preceding). Bound in publisher's cloth. 9 plates. Early signatures on fep and front paste down (1868, etc.) Fray to you edge along front board. Internally pages are clean and unmarked. P. 409 torn with loss to most of page.

London : John Leighton, 1846. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. small octavo. Type: Book pp XII, XXIV, 361. Prior owner name and date to fly leaf. Binding shows wear. Internally very good.

Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1859. Book. Good. Hardback. New Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 348 pages. Rebound in cloth by an amateur bookbinder, Contents complete..

London: John Murray, 1828. Book. Good. Full-Leather. New Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 446 pages. Several manuscript recipes to rear endpapers. Front hinge cracked, otherwise a good tight book. Raised bands to spine..

London, T. Noble, 1846;. 1st edition. Hardback. Good- condition. 12mo. 10" x 4". i, xxiv, 361pp with 10 illustrations. Internal hinges cracked but firm, faint handling marks throughout. Original black blind embossed scruffy boards with cloth split at hinges, worn at edges. All in original condition. .

London: John Murray, 1824. Spine nearly detached, disbound, some pp loose, dog eared, some tanning and spotting, but text generally clear.. Quarter Cloth. Poor. 12mo.

London: John Murray, Fleet Street [ Printed by S. Hamilton, Weybridge ], 1810. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. LONDON : 1810. New Edition, corrected. [ First published in 1806. Printed by S. Hamilton, Weybridge. ]. Hardback. Frontispiece, and nine other full-page plates as called for. Later rebind cloth spine; marbled boards; neat hand-written label. Tight copy. Well used with a few creased corners (where pages have been turned) and minor marks (from being open when cooking). VERY GOOD. (xxx), 354 pages. Index. Adverts to rear. Sm.8vo. Scarce complete copy. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. SCARCE.

London: T Noble. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Rebound with original covers and new eps. Previous owner plate to front paste-down. Top corner of title cropped. Closed tear and staining to frontispiece. Browning to pages. Sporadic foxing and marking. 1846. Reprint. Blue hardback cloth cover. 170mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). xii, xxiv, 361pp. 10 b/w plates. .

New York: Robert M'Dermut, 1817. Octavo, brown leather binding, xxviii, 317 pp, frontispiece plus eight plates. Third edition. This copy with a page of contemporary manuscript recipes for washington cake and citron pudding to verso of plate 3. A fair copy with pages xvii to xx bound upside down and out of order, tear to pp. xxiii-xiv, chipping to lower margins of plates 4 and 5, pp. 111-112 chipped with some textual loss, creasing, damp staining, and toning to pages, covers detached and worn.

London: John Murray, 1817. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. xxx, 348pp. Quarter-calf, marbled boards, leather spine label gilt lettered, 9 engraved plates including frontispiece. Cover is worn and scuffed, spine lettering still bright, contents moderately foxed throughout and occasionally dampstained, several signatures protruding, but binding is holding tightly, inscription on front endpaper and former owner's name on title page. Originally published in 1806, this edition is described as "a new edition, corrected." This edition was first published in 1816.

London: John Murray, 1833. Quarter Cloth. Good. Very interesting Period Cook Book, packed with techniques and useful instructions for preparing, preserving etc. Illustrated with 10 Full-Page Engraved Plates. Frontis illustrated with a kitchen scene featuring hanging Game and Fish. Part I, FISH, includes Turtle, Sturgeon & Salmon; Part II, MEATS, includes much on Venison & Mutton & Veal as well as Beef, Lamb & Pork. Also curing Bacon, Hams & many Sausages. Part III, Poultry & Game includes; Ducks, Goose, Pigeons, Partridge, Guinea Fowl, Pheasant, Grouse & Hare. Part IV, SOUPS & GRAVIES, includes Partridge Soup, Mock Turtle & Veal Gravy. Part V, SAUCES, FORCEMEATS, VINEGARS, KETCHUPS, PICKLES &c. includes;Old Currant Sauce for Venison & Queen Mary's Sauce for Mutton. Part VI, PIES, PASTRIES, PUDDINGS, FRITTERS &c. includes Oyster Pie, Staffordshire Goose Pie, Crust for Venison Pasty, Cherry Pie, Almond Cheesecake, Nelson Pudding & Cream Pancakes.… Read More

London: John Murray, 1837. (UK) 60th Edition This copy has one signature missing, not removed, but missing. When one looks at the top edge of pages, there is no gap. This missing pages are from 193 to 209 inclusive and cover the recipes from pies and pasties. Front fly and rear fly has ink marks, owner's signature, no other markings, pages quite clean, with wear to the cover edges, cover panels soiled. The spine had split at the edge where it meets the front cover; this has been rebacked. Tight copy with the interior pages quite clean, Good overall. 18 x 11 cm, original grey boards with green leather spine and paper title label, new endpapers, frontis showing kitchen scene with game, rabbit and fish in foreground, [i titlepage-v], vi-liv, [1], 2-448pp, index. Frontis, IX Plates all in the locations prescribed by the binding instructions. Full title reads: " A New System of Domestic Cookery formed upon Principles of Economy and Adapted to the use of Private Families. By a Lady.… Read More

London, Thomas, Allman [n.d., ca. 1870]., 1870. Small 8vo. Engraved frontispiece; engraved titled with vignette. 11 plates. 419 pages + 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. Modern marbled boards; gilt stamped red leather spine label. Very good, fresh. No signatures or bookplates.. Hardcover.

London: William Tegg, 1868. Thick small octavo, [2], [iii]-xlviii, [49]-432 pages. [3] leaves of plates. Frontispiece. Originally printed in late 1805 but dated forward to 1806. The book went through dozens of printings. The author originally intended the book for use by her daughters, and borrowed a good number of the recipes in the original edition from her ancestor, Mary Kettilby. This has been called the "earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to completeness, it called forth many imitations." (DNB). Rubbing to edges of publisher's gilt and blind-stamped dark burgundy cloth. Hinges started, some soiling throughout. Good. [Not in Attar or Cagle].

John Murray, London, 1832 [2, blank], liv, 36*,37#, 448 printed pages. Complete with 9 engraved plates (two with historic repairs on the versos), somewhat foxed. Some gatherings becoming loose. Contemporary ink gift inscription on unnumbered preliminary page. Most leaves lightly foxed. Hinges split. 10.5 x 17 cm. Contemporary full and richly patinated vellum, slightly rubbed with missing triangle of vellum on the upper front hinge. Corners slightly worn. Recipes for stewed tongue, prawn curry, thornback, sauce Robart, buttered orange, many sophisticated now obsolete recipes; many instructions on dealing with servants. The Dictionary of National Biography: "the earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to completeness." The 1st edition of 1806 had only 290 pages. It went through dozens of editions, both legitimate and pirated, in both Britain and the United States (where the first edition was published in 1807).. Hardcover. Fair.

London: John Murray, 1809. Book. Good. Hardcover. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 351 pages. Biting page 410. list the 1810 edition as 349 pages. All nine plates are correct. New endpapers with taped spine. A wonderful book in need of some very careful restoration..

London: John Murray, 1813. Book. Good. Hardcover. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 354 pages. Biting page 410. lists the 1810 edition as 349 pages. All nine plates are correct. Rebound in black leatherette with gilt title to spine..

London: John Murray, 1819. Un volume (10x17 cm) di LII-354 pagine, 9 tavole incise fuori testo + antiporta incisa. A new edition, corrected. In lingua inglese. Legatura ottocentesca in mezza pelle verde, titolo dorato al dorso, piatti in carta marmorizzata, Condizioni molto buone per questa che è una delle prime edizioni del più famoso libro dei cucina inglese dell'Ottocento. "A New System of Domestic Cookery, first published in 1806 by Maria Rundell (1745 – 16 December 1828), was the most popular English cookbook of the first half of the nineteenth century. Mrs Rundell has been called "the original domestic goddess" and her book "a publishing sensation" and "the most famous cookery book of its time".