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Description

Title:
A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed Upon Principles of Economy; and Adopted to the Use of Private Families
ISBN: No ISBN
Book #: 014741

Author: A Lady
Illustrator:
Publisher: John Murray
Place: London
Year: 1809
Edition: A New Edition

Book Cond.: Fair Condition
Jacket Cond.: No Dust Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 7″ x 4 1/4″
Book Type: n/a
Signed:

Description / Comments:
Size: 7″ x 4 1/4″. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Cloth on spine and corners covered with plain paper over boards with printed spine label, 351 pages, illustrated with all nine plates plus frontispiece. Covers soiled and worn, hinges cracked, pages 49/50 is ripped in half horizontally, both pieces still bound in the book, notes on blank end papers and lightly scattered throughout text, scattered foxing/staining. This book has “ABM” written in pencil on frontispiece, comes from the library of Amy Bess Miller, author on all matters Shaker and founder of the Hancock Shaker Museum. She had quite a collection of cookbooks. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 13 oz. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014741.