By Mary F. Henderson
New York   Harper & Brothers
7.5" by 5" [9], 10-376, 8pp
Mary Foote Henderson's useful cookery guide for Victorian housewives, illustrated throughout.
By Mary F. Henderson

1880 Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving

New York   Harper & Brothers
7.5" by 5" [9], 10-376, 8pp
Mary Foote Henderson's useful cookery guide for Victorian housewives, illustrated throughout.
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Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A useful treatise guiding the reader in the preparation of practical yet delicious dinners, as well as advising on setting a table. 

Illustrated with two plates, and vignettes throughout.

Written by Mary Foote Henderson, a noted support of women's suffrage.

Prior owner's ink inscription to recto to the front endpaper and to the front free endpaper. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. 

Eight pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. with a couple of minor marks to the boards. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owner's ink inscription to recto to the front endpaper and to the front free endpaper. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with some odd spots. Faint tidemark to the fore edge of some pages.

Very Good

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