Lot 1096 , A New System of Domestic Cookery, formed upon the principles of economy: and adopted to the use of private familes. By a Lady.

° A New System of Domestic Cookery, formed upon the principles of economy: and adopted to the use of private familes. By a Lady. new editiion, corrected. 10 plates (frontis. misplaced in the text); newly rebound calf backed marbled boards, gilt decorated and lettered spine, large 12mo. 1816; Kitchiner, William. - The Cook's Oracle; containing receipts for plain cookery, on the most economical plan for private familes... also a complete system of cookery for Catholic familes... new edition. some musical notation in the text; original grey boards and printed label (spine sometime replaced, vellum), fore and lower edges rough trimmed. Edinburgh and London, 1831; [Kitchiner, William] The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c. and Peptic Precepts... To Which is added, The Pleasure of Making a Will... By the Author of "The Cooks Oracle... 3rd edition, enlarged. 1 text engraving, rebound red gilt half calf and cloth, 12mo. 1822; sold together with 2 others. (5)
£140-180

Condition:
Oracle - lt. gutter damage commencing prelims., few sl. marks elsewhere, gen. good; Art Invigorating - amateur rebind, unsympathetic white end papers and blanks, some sl. lwr marginal worm (clear of txt); Domestic Cookery - eps. replaced, title lt. marked and few intermittent others, gen. clean. (22),xxx,348pp., and John Murray's cat. pp.349-52 (not complete). Others: Sarah Lindsay's Choice receipes (1883); Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery (revised, 1868)

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