The Wife's Own Book of Cookery: Containing upwards of Fifteen Hundred original Receipts, prepared with great care, and a proper attention to economy, and embodying all the latest improvements in the culinary art; accompanied by important remarks and counsel on the arrangement and well-ordering of the kitchen combined with useful hints on domestic economy. The whole based on many years constant practice and experience; and addressed to Private Families as well as the Highest Circles.
London: Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet Street, and all Booksellers, J.T. Norris, Printer, 128, Aldersgate Street, [circa 1856]. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xvi, 398, [2] pages. Illustrated with three plates, one folding, and numerous illustrations in the text. Detailed index; glossary, ready reckoner. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. Date from information in advertisements. FIRST EDITION thus. A later edition, revised and re-titled, of the author’s Illustrated London Cookery Book. Foxing.....