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: George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Small octavo (16.5 x 10.5 cm.), 63 pages. Third edition. Surprisingly scarce English household manual on egg cookery, one of a series of "cheap manuals" written by Hill and sold for sixpence. Publisher's original limp cloth. Bit of insect or rodent damage to upper cover edges, light cover soil and wear, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates no copy in the US; Bitting, page 228;.....

[Dumfries]: printed for the author, [circa 1760]. Small octavos in 4s (15 x 9 cm.), 186 pages. FIRST EDITION, though priority not firmly established. MacLean states “another ed. Edinburgh: printed for E. Wilson at Dumfries, [c.1760]” (though that edition is dated, “M.DCC.LX” at the foot of the title page); the Wilson issue has 136 pages. Cagle refers to the Wilson issue as “Second Edition”. Both editions display the misspelled author’s.....

London: William H. Ainsworth, 1827. Octavo, 276 pages, with two folding plates and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. The author's full name was William Alexis Jarrin [Guglielmo Alexis]. In early editions, including this one, the name is abbreviated "G.A." Later he anglicized his name, abbreviated as "W.A." "In 1820 Jarrin published this work, The Italian Confectioner, through which he is best known. The book.....

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. Undated later printing of a popular Victorian cookbook, modeled largely after Mrs. Beeton's famous work. The original publication, in a much smaller format, was issued in 1868. Bound in original red cloth, gilt.....

London: Keen, Robinson & Co., [circa 1900]. Small octavo, 36 pages. FIRST EDITION. Rare collection of one hundred traditional English recipes, each now promoting the use of Robinson's tinned barley crystals. The tentative dating is based on the corporate history of the venerable Keen's mustard and Robinson's barley brands. Keen, Robinson & Co. was acquired by the Colman mustard company in 1903. Wear and staining to covers, paper lightly age-toned;.....

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: 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.....

England, France: [circa 1840-1910]. Quarto-sized scrapbook (28.5 x 23 cm.), with twenty-three individual recipe sheets pasted-in. Texts in English and French. An odd collection of loose recipes on individual sheets. We've been unable to make sense of the particular selection, which includes a number of duplicate recipes, for rather unusual dishes, appearing side by side. Three of the recipes are on printed stationery. Recipes include: [illeg.] Glace, Pouding au Chocolat.....

London: Printed for John Murray, Fleet-Street; J. Harding, St. James's-Street; and A. Constable and Co., Edinburgh; at the Union Printing-Office, St. John's Square, by W. Wilson, 1808. Duodecimo (10 x 16 cm.), [22], xxx, [2], 351, [1] pages. Advertisement. Engraved frontispiece, plus nine additional leaves of plates in text. New edition, corrected [i.e., Third edition]. Originally published in 1806 and frequently revised and reprinted under a variety of titles in.....

London; Norwich: Marshall's School of Cookery; Robert Hayes, Ld. Rosebery House, Bream's Buildings; [Printed by Jarrold and Sons, Limited], [circa 1905]. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 664, [1] pages. Index. Illustrated. Advertisements. Styled "Revised Edition", and "Seventy-fifth thousand". Originally published in 1887 (though Bitting and Cagle state 1888) and now enlarged by about fifty percent. Light foxing throughout, hinges shaken, but text block sound. Adhesions to rear paste-down. Some light.....