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England: Crockers, Printers, Frome, 1829. 155 pp. Quarter light brown leather over gray boards with no lettering on the boards or spine. Leather is faded and cracked at the joints but joint is strong. Boards are rubbed and bumped at the corners. Minor foxing to endpapers and edges of the first 24 pages, otherwise remarkably clean and tight throughout. Ink inscription dated 1964 on front free endpaper and typed label on front paste down, "Compiled by the 2nd Marchioness of Bath." Elizabeth Isabella Thynne was the 2d Marchioness of Bath and lady of Longleat House one of the finest Elizabethan houses in England. The estate was worked by Cottagers in the early 19th century, farmers and craftsmen who worked from home before the industrial revolution fully changed manufacturing throughout England. The Marchioness compiled this manual to assist her Cottagers in "acquiring habits of industry, and of enjoying, in consequence, a greater degree of comfort,..." The manual treats of… Read More

Frome, printed by Crockers, 1829.. FIRST EDITION, 1829. Small 8vo, in sixes, approximately 180 x 110 mm, 7 x 4¼ inches, pages:1-155, including title page, foreword, introduction and index, bound in publisher's quarter tan roan, with grey boards and no lettering to spine. Small crack to top of upper hinge, pale spotting to title page and margins of next 4 leaves, otherwise contents clean, binding tight and firm, no loose pages. A very good copy of a scarce cookery book. OCLC locates 3 copies in US libraries, 1 in New Zealand and only 1 copy in UK (British Library, see Library Hub Discover). The preface of the compiler is signed "I. B. from Longleat", i.e. Isabella Byng who married the 2nd Marquess of Bath in 1794. She addresses the work to the cottagers of her neighbourhood and regrets being unable to interest herself in their welfare at that time due to ill health. In fact she died a year later in 1830. The book is intended to assist her cottagers to manage their daily lives and to produce food and… Read More