1831 Cottage Economy

Description

Publishers' Original Binding

First published in 1821, 'Cottage Economy' is a fascinating study into the running of a successful cottage.

The work gives instructions on how to bake bread, brew beer, keeping livestock, and more.

Cobbett's work is considered to be a timeless guide on how to live self-sufficiently. 

A new edition of this work.

With twelve pages of advertisements prior to the title page.

With the contemporary inscription of Rachel Watkins, dated 1834, to a blank prior to the title page.

Rebacked, retaining the original endpapers.

From the library of Jill Norman, an editor and food writer. Norman began working at Penguin in the early 1960s and, as the only woman, the care of the company's cookery books fell to her. It was her responsibility to expand the cookery titles Penguin produced, and thus began to publish works by Jane Grigson, Claudia Roden, and Alan Davidson. In particular Norman worked closely with the famed cookery writer Elizabeth David, with whom she was good friends.