From Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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688pp. Original publisher's green cloth, tamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Hinges exposed, leaves browned, contemporary ownership inscription to verso of half-title, manuscript lines from the Cowper's poems to RFEP. A handsome copy, in the original gilt-decorated cloth of a remarkably popular nineteenth-century cookery manual by journalist Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781-1857), collected from her domestic articles originally printed in the Inverness Courier, and first published in book form in 1826 under the pseudonym, taken from a character in Sir Walter Scott's novel St Ronan's Well, Mistress Margaret Dods. Nineteen editions appeared by the close of the century. Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # AQ29731
Bibliographic Details
Title: The cook and housewife's manual.
Publisher: Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh
Publication Date: 1856
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: Tenth edition.
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