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1909 The Rainbow Cookery Book of Dainty Dishes and Delectable Delicacies
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce
The first edition of this work, published in Easter 1909.
A collection of recipes issued in connection with the Ashton-under-Lyne Christ Church Bazaar, edited by B. L. Whitworth and M. Meakin.
Including recipes for soups, desserts, cakes, stews, and cheese dishes.
With a wealth of contemporary advertisements throughout, and to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Including advertisements from ironmongers, hatters and hosiers, Herbert Johnson Coal Merchant, T. Brownson's tailors, and many more businesses.
Condition
In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Externally, age toned, with ink handling marks to front board. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with loss of paper to centre of back strip. Inscription to front free endpaper head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned, with spotting and instances of foxing throughout.
Good
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