A new system of domestic cookery; formed upon principles of economy: and adapted to the use of private families.
London.
Printed for John Murray, 1816.
New edition.
12mo.
[22], xxx, 348pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further nine engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards. Heavily rubbed. Recent shelf-label of Peter A. Crofts to recto of FFEP, slight ink-staining to p.121, scattered spotting.
A revised edition of a remarkably popular nineteenth century recipe book compiled by Maria Eliza Rundell [née Ketelby] (1745-1828). First published in 1806, the book had immediate success, with between 5000-10,000 copies printed annually. It reached its sixty-fifth edition in 1841.
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref: 30645
