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1849 Modern Cookery in All Its Branches
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding
The ninth edition, first published in 1945.
Illustrated with a monochrome steel engraved frontispiece, monochrome wood engraved vignettes, and seven steel engraved plates. Collated, complete.
Eliza Acton's immensely important and popular recipe book, a bestseller generally considered to be one of the best cookery works written in English. The work ran through thirteen editions in nine years. Acton is understandably best known for this work, which was one of the first cookery books aimed at a domestic reader.
Bound in gorgeous modern full crushed morocco, with gilt tooling to the spine and endpapers and blanks renewed, retaining original half title.
Condition
Bound in modern full crushed morocco, endpapers and blanks renewed, retaining original half titles. Externally lovely with light marks to the head of the boards and spine. Internally firmly bound with minimal age toning and light spotting throughout. Owner's signatures to the title page and half title. Tidemarks to the frontispiece, title page, and to the plates. Owner's handwritten recipe tipped in to the rear.
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