THE COOK AND HOUSEWIFE'S MANUAL: A Practical System of Modern Domestic Cookery and Family Management (Sixth edition)

Edité par Oliver and Boyd / Simpkin Marshall & Co, Edinburgh / London, 1837

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(UK) Sixth Edition This is a professionally refurbished copy, rebacked, with the original cover boards and the original spine backstrip, new endpapers, with neat reinforcement to the hinge of the title page and the following page. Some of the pages have light spotting with some soiling to the edges of the preliminary pages front and back, but the book is solid with the cover edges worn in places. There is a small hole to page 133/ 34 affecting some lines of text. Given its age, a Good only refurbished copy. 19.5 x 12 cm, dark brown boards with blind embossed central motif, [1-5] 6-491pp [1 page of critical notices. According to Oxford, this book first appeared in 1826. This the sixth edition which incorporates an appendix containing A Treatise on Domestic Brewing. Mistress Margaret Dods is the landlady in Scott's St. Ronan's Well; it is rumoured that Scott wrote the original preface. Christina Johnstone was a Scottish novelist; De Quincy cites her along with Joanna Baillie, as an example of a woman "cultivating the profession of authorship with absolutely no sacrifice or loss of feminine dignity". This cookbook is a delight to read: after a page and a half of careful instruction on how to boil a turbot, the author relates this story: " .a Bishop descending to his kitchen to superintend the dressing of a turbot, and finding that his cook had stupidly cut away the fins, set about sewing them on again with his own Episcopal fingers. This dignitary knew the values of turbot." (1.5 JM HOQ 100/a2 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

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Titre
THE COOK AND HOUSEWIFE'S MANUAL: A Practical System of Modern Domestic Cookery and Family Management (Sixth edition)
Auteur
DODS, Mistress Margaret (Christina Jane Johnstone)
Éditeur
Oliver and Boyd / Simpkin Marshall & Co, Edinburgh / London
Année de publication
1837
État de l'article
Good
Jaquette
No Jacket
Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
6th.
Catalogues du vendeur
AAA Special Books, BIBX, Cookbooks, Old & Vintage, Z ZZA

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