Cooks Oracle Containing Receipts Plain by William Kitchener (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback in quarter leather, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. 1838, 424 pages, Boards heavily worn, with small section of marbled paper missing from rear panel. Previous owner's name to ffep, top corner of title page and last two letters of 'Oracle' missing. Pages 309 - 316 loosening. Occasional spotting in text, occasional cracking, otherwise in good order and unmarked throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A new edition. xx, 520pp. In a later binding. Half-bound in blue leather over marbled boards, six-panelled spine, gilt rules, gilt titles on a green leather spine label. Top edge gilt. 12mo. Some spotting and darkening to text block edges. Hint of spotting on prelims. Some occasional spotting on pages, with the occasional flat corner crease. A handsome volume, thanks to its fine later binding, very neat and tidy. A scarce early cookery book aimed at the rising middle classes. Full title: 'The Cook's Oracle; Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery, on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families, Also the Art of Composing the Most Simple and Most Highly Finished Broths, Gravies, Soups, Sauces, Store Sauces and Flavouring Essences: Pastry, Preserves, Puddings, Pickles, etc., Containing Also a Complete System of Cookery for Catholic Families.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. From the Fifth London Edition. The title goes on to state: The Quantity of each Article is Accurately Stated by Weight and Measure; the Whole Being the Result of Actual Experiments Instituted in the Kitchen of a Physician. 8vo, full leather, black leather label on spine. Rear hinge cracked. Some foxing and darkening of paper. Wear to spine ends.

380pp. Contemporary calf, leather label. Front board detached, small chip at head of spine, boards a bit warped. Occasional foxing and dampstaining, ex-lib. with bookplate. A good, sound copy. "From the last London edition, which is almost entirely re-written." Authorship attributed to William Kitchener. The London edition first appeared in 1817 under the title, APICIUS REDIVIVUS OR COOK'S ORACLE. LOWENSTEIN 92. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 9213.