Title: Handbook of Practical Cookery. >>SCARCE ...
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode (bible Warehouse) Ltd. 33 Paternoster Row, E.C. [London], Edinburgh and New York.
Publication Date: 1906
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
xix, 836 printed pages. 4-pt font. 50 leaves of plates, India paper (inner hinge cracked but firm). Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt over red. Rounded corners. 47 x 55mm. Straight-grained navy blue morocco with gilt art nouveau design on spine (slightly rubbed). New and enlarged edition. With an introduction on the philosophy of cookery. Bondy called it "the most extensive cookery book in miniature". Bondy, 139. Welsh, 2511. Seller Inventory # 5334