English cookery books to the year 1850

by Arnold Whitaker Oxford

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London, New York et al. : Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1913. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 6 , 192; a very good copy in original blue cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, light to moderate wear to extremities and front and back lower corners slightly bumped. While admitting that his real interest is in the combination of cookery with medicine Prefatory Note , Oxford offers an extremely useful chronological listing of cookery books

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