Dainty Cookery for the Home: The Triple Cookery Book containing English, American & Indian dishes

Published by Printed at the M.E. Publishing House, Madras, 1899

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Seller: Robert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman', Norwich, United KingdomRobert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman'

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Recipes/household hints, etc. fulfilling the need for 'a good cookery-book that would be suited to [colonial life] in India' and also to ensure 'more varied dishes than are usually seen where the native servants are cooks'. First Edn., 1899; book rebound (not recently) in quarter black leather, green cloth boards; decorative rule blind-stamped to front/rear boards; raised bands to spine, with green leather title-labels and titling/date of publication/plain rules blocked in gilt (bright); all edges speckled green; dark green endpapers; xxv+[i]+202pp. + [12]pp. (blank 'Memoranda'). Spine/boards clean and very crisp/bright; light foxing to pp.145-149 at bottom margins, but text fresh, pages crisp/clean/very bright. Contemporary recipe (for lemonade) neatly handwritten in ink to first 'Memoranda' page. VG+ PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING.

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Bibliographic details

Title
Dainty Cookery for the Home: The Triple Cookery Book containing English, American & Indian dishes
Author
DENNING, Mrs. Margaret B. [Margaret Boehme Denning]
Publisher
Printed at the M.E. Publishing House, Madras
Publication year
1899
Condition
Very Good Plus
Dust jacket
No Jacket
Book Type
Hardback
Binding
Quarter Leather
Edition
First Edition.
Seller catalogs
Antiquarian (published 1800 to 1899), Bindings (& books for Re-binding), Cookery/Food & Drink/Inns & Taverns

Robert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman'

Norwich, United Kingdom

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AbeBooks seller since December 19, 2002

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