The Confectioner Guide, and Ladies' and Housekeeper's Instructor: being a grand display of pastry, in a variety of forms: also confectionary; Iceing, candying, preserving, jelly-making, sugar-boiling, colouring, &c. &c. in the first of the art. by James Wallace, late of Philadelphia.
[London: the author;] J. Smith, Printer, 193 High Holborn, [1826]. Duodecimo (14 x 8 cm.), v, 144 pages. Index. Publisher’s advertisements on rear board. Date from author’s statement in preliminary “Advertisement”, “London, July 1st, 1826". Perhaps a first edition, but sequence yet to be established, of this confectioner’s manual by an author, “Late of Philadelphia”. We know of five printings between 1826 and 1831 (in London, Bungay, and Leeds); the.....