Cookery

A rare title in the field of comparative statistics deakling with the price of bread 'from the coming in of William the Conqueror to Michaelmas 1745'. The first edition was published in 1638. Engraved frontispiece showing the process of baking a loaf of bread.

1903, 778 page cookbook including index. Interesting binding, green decorated Art Nouveau style cloth with gilt titles and four (one in each corner front and rear boards) brass bosses. Substantial thick, octavo.
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The Economist; or New Family Cookery, by Anthony Haselmore twenty seven years cook in a nobleman's family. 1st edition of 1823. No copy of first edition held in any library other than Leeds. No copy in BL.13 plates + illustrated title page + frontispiece. Rebacked, original spine laid laid down, original marbled endpapers. Contemporary calf binding, with gilt detailing to spine, little bit rubbed and marked, but a very pleasing copy.