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1879 Warne's Model Cookery with Complete Instructions in Household ManagementLondon: C1879A new edition of this impressive guide to cookery and housekeeping, expanded to include over two thousand eight hundred recipes.
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1887 Practical Dinners. With Plain Directions For Their PreparationLondon: 1887A very scarce second edition of Victor Chevalley De Rivaz's cookery work that offers recipes for each month and season of the year.
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1879 Warne's Model Housekeeper: A Manual of Domestic Economy in all its BranchesLondon: c1879An expansive collection of information successful housekeepers of the day need know.
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1910 Cookery Up-to-Date a Practical Handbook of What to EatLiverpool and Llandudno: c1910A revised edition of May Little's collection of essential recipes for any kitchen, continuing over six hundred in total.
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1809 The Imperial and Royal CookLondon: 1809The first edition of Frederic Nutt's popular cookery work, containing numerous recipes, intended for use in opulent occasions. Illustrated with a frontispiece.
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1847 A New System of Domestic CookeryLondon: 1847A nicely rebound copy of Maria Rundell's popular and influential cookery work, here edited by E. Birch. Illustrated throughout.
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1838 The New Family Cook, or, The Housekeepers' GuideLondon: 1838A vanishingly scarce cookery work not on Copac, written anonymously, looking in detail at the cookery of meat and fish.
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1866 The American Family Receipt BookLondon: 1866An uncommon copy of this American cookery work, which contains a variety of recipes that had not been previously printed in England
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1835 The New London Cookery Adapted to the Use of Private FamiliesLondon: 1835Rare in any edition and here in the original boards is an eighth edition of this anonymously written cookery work offering a wide range of recipes, with a special focus on meat recipes.
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1831 Modern Practical Cookery, Pastry, Confectionery, Pickling, and PreservingEdinburgh: 1831An excellent copy of this attentive work from Mrs Nourse, a teacher of the arts of cookery.
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1849 The Professed CookLondon: 1849A smartly rebound third edition of Robert Reynolds' cookery work, with hundreds of recipes on a variety of food. Illustrated with a frontispiece.
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1850 The Modern Housewife or MenagereLondon: 1850Alexis Soyer's extensive cookery work, providing recipes for a wide variety of food and dishes.
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1854 Modern Household Cookery: a New Work for Private FamiliesLondon: 1854An uncommon cookery work looking in depth into various essential recipes, illustrated with eight plates.
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1853 The Standard Cook Containing Upwards of Seven Hundred ReceiptsLondon: 1853A very scarce third edition of Robert Reynolds' concise and extensive cookery work, including recipes on confectionary. Illustrated with a frontispiece.
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1885 366 Menus. Each Consisting of a Soup, a Savoury CourseLondon: 1885A very scarce second edition of this interesting and very early vegetarian recipe book, with a collection of menus for each day of the year. Written by Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace.
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1890 Fruits, and How to Use Them. A Practical Manual for HousekeepersNew York: 1890An exceptionally well preserved copy of this uncommon first edition of Hester Poole's important guide to the cooking and preservation of fruits.
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1899 Savoury DishesDumfries: 1899A very scarce first edition of Florence Hope-Bell's collection of almost three hundred savoury recipes.
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1916 Isobel's Home CookeryLondon: 1916A scarce collection of the 1916 issues of 'Isobel's Home Cookery', containing a variety of recipes that were used during the First World War.
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1889 Luxurious Modern CookeryLondon: 1889A very scarce collection of recipes for use in the household, being luxurious yet also easy to master recipes.
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1880 Lessons on CookeryLondon: 1880A very scarce cookery work, being a collection of essential recipes and tips for the use of teachers and housewives in the late nineteenth century.
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1899 French Cookery for LadiesLondon: 1899A superior copy of this collection of thirty-six lectures on French cookery, imparting Madame Lebour-Fawssett's experiences in the art to eager English ladies.
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1857 The Domestic Dictionary: Comprising Everything Pertaining to CookeryLondon: 1857A scarce dictionary of cookery terms and recipes and medical terms with treatments, written by Gibbons Merle and John Reitch.
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1880 Breakfasts and Luncheons at HomeLondon: 1880An early edition of this enthusiastic collection of breakfast and luncheon recipes.
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1877 Puddings and Sweets being Three Hundred and Sixty-Five ReceiptsLondon: 1877A delightful book of enough puddings to try a new one every day for a year.
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1899 Savoury Dishes Receipts collected by Florence Hope-BellDumfries: 1899An endearing and scarce first edition copy of Florence Hope-Bell's collected receipts, originally sold to benefit the St John's Rectory Fund of Dumfries.
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1901 Easy Dinner Arranged for Young HousekeepersLondon: 1901A charming book laying out a year long menu to aid young or inexperienced housekeepers.
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1897 Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery and Housekeeping BookLondon: 1897An uncommon edition of this successor to Mrs Beeton's famed Household Management, featuring beautiful coloured plates.
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1825 The Economist and General Adviser, Containing Important PapersLondon: 1825A very scarce first edition of the collection of the home economics periodical 'The Economist and General Adviser', complete here as two volumes in one.
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1896 History of the Horn-BookLondon: 1896The first edition of Andrew Tuer's fascinating and influential work on historial hornbooks, looking here that their history. With seven hornbooks.
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1897 History of the Horn-BookLondon: 1897The second edition of Andrew Tuer's important working looking at the history of hornbooks, looking in detail at many surviving hornbooks.
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1878 Marylebone Club Cricket Scores and Biographies From 1855 to 1875London: 1878An attractive and extensive documentation of cricket scores between the years 1867 to 1876, with concise biographies of notable cricket players of the time.
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1905 The Compleat Angler, or, the Contemplative Man's RecreationLondon: 1905A beautifully bound limited edition of Izaak Walton's influential work 'The Compleat Angler', here published by the short-lived Caradoc Press. Signed by the publisher and artist, Harry George Webb, to the frontispiece. -
1931 The Compleat Angler, or, the Contemplative Man's RecreationLondon: 1931The first edition thus of Izaak Walton's important seventeenth century guide to fishing. Here illustrated with colour plates by the Golden Age illustrator Arthur Rackham.
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1994 The Wine Buyer's Record BookLondon: 1994A very scarce first edition of this wine record book, for use of the reader to fill out and comment on different wines they have tried. Illustrated in colour throughout.
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1992 The Grapes of RalphLondon: 1992The first edition of Ralph Steadman's history of wine, illustrated in colour throughout. Signed and inscribed by the author, with a doodle by Steadman. -
The Lady's Assistant For Regulating and Supplying Her TableLondon: 1777A very rare and complete third edition of Charlotte Mason's popular work on housewifery, proving many recipes, and advice on how to run a household.