[Rarebooks] FS: A NEW SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC COOKERY, 1807

[Charles Agvent]

[RUNDELL, Maria Eliza Ketelby]. A NEW SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC COOKERY; FORMED 
UPON PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMY: AND ADAPTED TO THE USE OF PRIVATE FAMILIES. 
London: John Murray, 1807. Second Edition. Small octavo (3-3/4" x 
6-1/8") bound in recent calf-backed marbled boards with a gilt-stamped 
black morocco spine label; [xxii], lvii, 486 pages, with engraved 
frontispiece and nine engraved plates. The First Edition of 1806 had 
only 290 pages; this Second Edition, while not quite as scarce, is 
considerably enlarged and improved with more illustrations. Bitting, p. 
410 (citing the earliest edition as 1810); Cagle 971 (the Third Edition, 
also 1807, but with fewer pages); The Dictionary of National Biography: 
"the earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to 
completeness." Early manuscript recipes on the rectos of the 
frontispiece and the rear endpaper. Occasional and moderate foxing and 
staining. Very Good copy in an attractive binding.         $650.00

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