London: Dean & Munday, 1820. Duodecimo, iv + 288 pages. Illustrated frontispiece and four engraved plates. Third edition, probable second printing. The book sports two title pages, one dated 1819 and one 1820, which leads us to presume that the printer just added the 1820 title page without removing the former. A fairly popular work that Oxford indicates had at least nine editions. Includes some interesting medical remedies, including this.....

London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 17, Paternoster-Row, [1823]. Octavo (21.5 x 14 cm.), 464 pages. Index. Lacking the frontispiece portrait of Schnebbelie. Engraved title featuring a cornucopic table. Illustrated with eleven plates, mostly carving instructions and menus. Stated seventeenth edition. While Andre Simon claimed this was "probably the most popular cookery book in England during the last decade of the eighteenth century" (BG, page 81), Maclean pushes back on this.....

London: Dean & Son, n.d. c. 1884. Octavo, 150, [2] pages. Advertisements. The Chef du Cuisine of "Messrs. Gunter & Co... and many of the Nobility" offers a collection of dishes which in our world seem hardly dainty or appropriate for the invalid. Instead, within we find a meat-centric extravaganza including "Curried Pheasants", and "Bombs of Fat Livers a l"Ambrosia'. There are a few beef teas, and light soups, but.....

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., [1921-22]. Octavo (19 x 14 cm.), 263 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION, "dated Midsummer to Easter 1921-22" (from the preface). The essays presented here were gathered from the unsigned works published in The Times, and printed here, we're told in the preface, in response to reader requests. Agnes Jekyll, patron of the Pre-Raphaelites, and sister-in-law of the iconic gardener Gertrude Jekyll. The biographer of the.....

London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, [circa 1900]. Thick octavo (20.5 x 16 cm.), vi, 728, [2] pages. Index. Advertisements. Illustrated with six chromolithographic plates, and engravings in the text. Main text in double columns. Later, undated printing. The original publication, in a much smaller format, was issued in 1868. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, with decorated boards. Some sunning to red cloth at spine; a bit.....

London: Printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys between the two Temple Gates in Fleet-Street. [1708]. Octavo, 160 pages. First authorized version [Cagle, citing Foxon, indicates an unauthorized folio edition published in 1707]. The book consists of letters to Dr. Lister and others, followed by parallel editions of Horace's Art of Poetry, and King's Art of Cookery. The poem is the author's satire on Lister's translation of Apicius. The author.....

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1948. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 219 pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of essays, including the author's attempt to recreate a fourteenth century banquet. Layton was a caterer and the other essays describe some of the escapades encountered in that noble profession. With the tiny ink bookseller stamp of Sotheran to front end papers, and some pencil bookseller description to rear end papers. Otherwise.....

London: Heywood and Company, Limited, 150 Holborn, E.C.; Printed by Spottiswode & Co., Ltd., 1904. Large quarto (29 x 24 cm.), viii, 1-86, [plates], 1-58 pages. FIRST EDITION. One section, complete in and of itself, of a massive documentation of the Exchanges of London. A detailed description of the history, people, and product of the London Produce Market (Mincing Lane). The work contains: "an historical survey of the London Produce.....

London: Albion Press. Printed for J. and J. Cundee, Ive-Lane, [1811]. Octavo, 634 pages [lacking pages 633-634 (final leaf of index)]. Frontispiece portrait of the author and ten plates. Later printing of the third edition. Originally issued c. 1800 by J. Robins, with the second edition by J. Cundee in 1808. MacDonald was the Head Cook a the Bedford Tavern and Hotel, Covent-Garden. The condition is good only, with some.....

London: William Tegg, 1868. Thick small octavo, [2], [iii]-xlviii, [49]-432 pages. [3] leaves of plates. Frontispiece. Originally printed in late 1805 but dated forward to 1806. The book went through dozens of printings. The author originally intended the book for use by her daughters, and borrowed a good number of the recipes in the original edition from her ancestor, Mary Kettilby. This has been called the "earliest manual of household.....

London: Marshall's School of Cookery; Published by Robert Hayes, Limited, [circa 1896 ff.]. Octavo (18 x 12 cm.), vii, 79, [1] pages. Frontispiece and three additional chromo-lithographed plates. Additional illustrations in the text. Advertisements. Date from information in advertisement on page 73. Stated “Seventeenth Thousand”, revised and enlarged. A well-known late nineteenth century treatise on all matter of frozen food and dessert concoctions, with more than twenty pages of ads.....

London; Norwich: Marshall's School of Cookery; Robert Hayes, Ld. Rosebery House, Bream's Buildings; [Printed by Jarrold and Sons, Limited], [1887]. Cagle, which includes only a later edition, states that the first edition was 1888. Some slight edgewear to gilt-titled green cloth, otherwise very good. Previous owner's name and date, "1893" to title page. [Bitting, page 310; Cagle 856 (later edition); Driver, Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in England 1875-1914, 687.6].....

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.; Marshall's School of Cookery, [1887]. Octavo, 468, [24] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Styled "twentieth thousand". The date is drawn from several advertisements at the rear. Cagle, which includes only a later edition, states that the first edition was 1888. Some slight edgewear to gilt-titled green cloth, otherwise very good. Previous owner's name and date, "1893" to title page. [Bitting, page 310; Cagle 856 (later.....