The gentleman's table guide and table companion to the art of dining & drinking, with table habits and curious dishes of the various nations, &c &c with practical recipes for wine cups, American drinks, punches, cordials, recherche bills of fare 3rd ed by Ricket, Edward - 1873

London, Frederick Warne and Co. Bedford Streeet Covent Garden W.C., 1873.. TITLE CONTINUED: With Practical Recipes for Wine Cups, American Drinks, Punches, Cordials. Recherche Bills of Fare. With Service of Wines. THIRD EDITION enlarged 1873. 8vo, approximately 160 x 110 mm, 6½ x 4¼ inches, frontispiece and 1 other illustration, pictorial headpiece, pages: x, 1-167, pages 143 to page 164 unnumbered, followed by 30 pages of adverts, title page printed red and black, red rules surounding text, original publisher's pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and gilt lettering and decoration to upper cover, blind decoration to lower cover, original yellow endpapers with printed adverts, all edges gilt, Slight rubbing to binding, head and tail of spine bumped and slightly rubbed, corners bumped and slightly faded, small fox spot to lower blank margin of first 3 pages, inner paper hinges cracked, binding tight and firm. Library Hub Discover, lists 4 copies only in UK libraries. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO… Read More

London, 1873. Hard Cover. (London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1873). Third Edition. Publisher's green gilt-decorated cloth, gilt lettering and gilt page edges, 6 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches, 167 pages plus advertisements, yellow printed endpapers. blind-stamped to the back board. Printed in red and black, steel-engraved frontispiece and illustrations. Both sets of end-papers contain advertisements. Armorial book-plate to the front paste-down of the former librettist Charles Willmore Emlyn (1862-1940). The former owner's name is written to the top of the title page and in the same hand there is a short recipe (in black fountain pen) for a bottle of brandy cherries) to page 112. The boards are slightly rubbed and the spine tips a little pushed otherwise a bright and clean VG+ copy with firm hinges and some foxing and staining to the interior. Looks nicer than it sounds. Now housed in a modern acetate cover. Uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request.