London: The International Wine and Food Publishing Company/David & Charles, 1971. Octavo, 127 pages. First edition. Illustrated with engravings throughout. This book was edited by Robin Howe after the untimely death of food researcher Zara Groundes-Peace. It includes British "old cookery lore, household recipes, advice on the choice of kitchen implements, and on dining etiquette". Rust colored cloth, with illustrated dust jacket in attached mylar protector (all copies we have.....

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, n.d. c. 1890s. Octavo, 484 +viii [ads]. Later printing of the original 1891 first edition. Undated but prior to 1900, according to Driver. In original glit-titled blue cloth, with red morocco spine professionally rebacked. Endpapers repaired at hinges, likely when the book was rebacked, otherwise internally clean and tight, and overall very good. [not in Cagle; Driver 476.2; Bitting page 216 (later edition)].

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: For Richard Wilkin, 1714. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), [16], 218, [13] pages. FIRST EDITION. “Mary Kettilby’s collection of cookery recipes and medicinal and home remedies, from a tasty “green-pease soop, without meat” to gooseberry wine. Households that could not afford French cooks or French cooking came to form a growing audience for books by women that contained unpretentious recipes cut to suit a less costly cloth, for pickling.....

London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple Gates in Fleet Street, 1717. Two works bound as one. Octavo, 84 & [19], 115, [1] pages. Fifth and Second editions, respectively. The "first original eighteenth century English treatise on gardening" [Henrey, p. 415], together with its companion, The Gentleman's Recreation. In 1718, following the printing of this volume, a third work was added, The Fruit-garden Kalendar... in order to make his.....

London; [Holborn]: Houlston & Stoneman, 65, Paternoster Row; [printed by A. Sweeting, [1849]. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), iv, 332 pages. Index. Date of publication from Oxford (page 179), and the British Library and Oxford Brookes records. Stated “new edition, corrected and improved”. Originally issued in 1842 by Charles Knight & Co. though the pagination and size of this is identical with that issue. The author compares this work with.....

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.....