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Bishop, Frederick : THE WIFE'S OWN BOOK OF COOKERY containing upwards of fifteen hundred original Receipts

Ward Lock, London, 1861

8vo. ..prepared with great care, and a proper attention to economy, and embodying all the latest improvements in the culinary art . Combined with useful hints on Domestic ...xiv, 398pp, [ii pub. ads] Original cloth binding with attractive blind embossed patterned and gilt decorated title and illus. to the front board and spine with the decoration continued to the rear board. Frontis. plate and half-title page present but lacking the title-page and p15/16. [both reproduced in facsimile now and loosely inserted].This would read 'THE WIFE'S OWN BOOK OF COOKERY containing upwards of fifteen hundred original receipts, prepared with great care, and a proper attention to economy, and embodying all the latest improvements in the culinary art . Combined with useful hints on Domestic Economy. The whole based on many years' constant practice and experience; and addressed to private families as well as the Highest Circles . Illustrated with 250 descriptive engravings. [nb Adverts at the rear have reviews up to 1859 for books so this is the second edition. The text and layout is unchanged from the first edition. The 1864 third edition is a revised edition with 408pp].. Book Condition: V.g.. Binding: Hard Back

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