Rare books from Books & Bygones

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1882. Book. Good. Hardback. Sixtieth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 528 pages plus catalogue of 30 pages. Dark red cloth with embossed decorations and gilt title to spine. Parsnips need to be cooked for 2 - 3 hours? Axford page 119 quotes first edition as 1830..

Coventry: Merridew & Son, 1812. Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 372 pages. Improved system of domestic economy; containing above eight hundred valuable receipts, many of which are entirely original; the whole forming a most useful economical companion. Rebound with three quarter leather and marbled boards..

London: Michael Joseph, 1960. Book. Illus. by Renny, Juliet. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 493 pages. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt on red ground, pictorial design to upper board in red, red top-stain. With the rare dust jacket which has been professionally restored. Pages 247-250 have been re-stitched by a professional bookbinder. First edition, first impression of the author's most influential work, some light staining to bottom edge. David (1913-1992) taught herself Mediterranean-style cooking while living abroad during the early 1940s, and began writing a food column for Harper's Bazaar in 1949, to her amazement the only place you could buy olive oil in England at that time was the chemist!.

Heidelberg: Heidelbergae, 1867. Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 202 pages. Novem codicum ope adiutus auxit, restituit, emendavit et correxit, variarum lectionum parte potissima ornavit, strictim et interim explanavit. Top edge gilt..

London: John Ebers and Co., 1829. Book. Good. Hardback. Tenth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 485 pages. Rebound in green cloth with original title label to spine. A system of fashionable and economical cookery adapted to the use of English families. Tenth edition, corrected and enlarged, with an appendix of observations on the meals of the day - new method of giving fashionable suppers at routs and soirees, as practised by the author when with Lord Sefton. Frontispiece portrait of author..

Bungay: L. & R. Childs, 1823. Book. Good. Full-Leather. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 495 pages. Including a system of modern cookery, in all its various branches, adapted for the use of private families: also a variety of original and valuable information relevant to Baking, Brewing, Carving, Cleaning, Collaring, Curing, Economy of bees, Economy of dairy, Economy of poultry, Family medicine, Gardening, Home-made wines, Pickling, Potting, Preserving, Rules of health..