London, J. Osborn, 1741. 8vo. neatly recased original full calf binding, original backstsrip relaid with new red morocco title label, xiv, title, 123, (iii), title, 324pp. some worming to bottom margin of the first part of the volume not affecting text, worming to the second part at right hand margin affecting text to a very small degree in places else a very clean tight copy embellished with six little woodcuts. B.550. M.49. O.71. S.658. The cookery section contains lengthy instructions on the purchase of all sorts of provisions and how to store them followed by several hundred receipts in cookery, pastry, pickling, confectionary (sic), distilling, brewing, cosmeticks, &c. together with the art of making English wines contains much that could be used today with little alteration. The second part being a compendious body of physick succinctly treating all the diseases and accidents incident of men, women and children is better read and not practised. Seller Inventory # 9447

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Title: The Family Magazine: In Two Parts. Part I. ...

Publisher: London, J. Osborn,

Publication Date: 1741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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Janet Clarke Books established in 1972, member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association since 1979, now Associate Member. I specialise in antiquarian, rare, second-hand books and related ephemera on Food, Cookery, the History of Food etc. Private premises.

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