A New System of Domestic Cookery: Founded Upon Principles of Economy; and Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Rundell, Mrs. & Roberts, Emma Miss - 1847

London: Johnson, Chapman and Bell, 1852. Hardcover. Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Good. Publishers cloth. Boards a little loose. Toned and foxed.

John Murray, 1847-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. liv, 571. : ill. ; 17 cm. (Lacking title page and page preceding). Bound in publisher's cloth. 9 plates. Early signatures on fep and front paste down (1868, etc.) Fray to you edge along front board. Internally pages are clean and unmarked. P. 409 torn with loss to most of page.

Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1859. Book. Good. Hardback. New Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 348 pages. Rebound in cloth by an amateur bookbinder, Contents complete..

London: John Murray, 1828. Book. Good. Full-Leather. New Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 446 pages. Several manuscript recipes to rear endpapers. Front hinge cracked, otherwise a good tight book. Raised bands to spine..

Halifax: Milner And Sowerby, 1860. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Tight Firm Clean Copy - Reprint - No Signatures Inscriptions Or Notations Discovered. Illustrated. Recently Rebound 3/4 Black Leather Yellow Cloth Hard Cover With White Label And Black Printed Title On Spine - No Visible Wear. Very Slight Cocking Of Spine..

Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1858. NEW EDITION, third issue. Vigesimo-Quarto (very small). pp. lii, 376. With 9 engraved plates depicting the various edible animals and their joints. All edges untrimmed. In repaired contemporary maroon cloth with gilt and blind stamping. Re-backed using original cloth over spine and boards. Browning and spotting; small purple 6d stamp to front paste-down. Wear to cloth with little gilt remaining. Good overall. Mrs. Rundell's 'Domestic Cookery' was first published by her husband's friend John Murray in 1806, compiled from letters sent to her daughters. It became an instant classic, running through 65 editions in less than 40 years.

London: John Murray, 1837. (UK) 60th Edition This copy has one signature missing, not removed, but missing. When one looks at the top edge of pages, there is no gap. This missing pages are from 193 to 209 inclusive and cover the recipes from pies and pasties. Front fly and rear fly has ink marks, owner's signature, no other markings, pages quite clean, with wear to the cover edges, cover panels soiled. The spine had split at the edge where it meets the front cover; this has been rebacked. Tight copy with the interior pages quite clean, Good overall. 18 x 11 cm, original grey boards with green leather spine and paper title label, new endpapers, frontis showing kitchen scene with game, rabbit and fish in foreground, [i titlepage-v], vi-liv, [1], 2-448pp, index. Frontis, IX Plates all in the locations prescribed by the binding instructions. Full title reads: " A New System of Domestic Cookery formed upon Principles of Economy and Adapted to the use of Private Families. By a Lady.… Read More

London, Thomas, Allman [n.d., ca. 1870]., 1870. Small 8vo. Engraved frontispiece; engraved titled with vignette. 11 plates. 419 pages + 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. Modern marbled boards; gilt stamped red leather spine label. Very good, fresh. No signatures or bookplates.. Hardcover.

John Murray, London, 1832 [2, blank], liv, 36*,37#, 448 printed pages. Complete with 9 engraved plates (two with historic repairs on the versos), somewhat foxed. Some gatherings becoming loose. Contemporary ink gift inscription on unnumbered preliminary page. Most leaves lightly foxed. Hinges split. 10.5 x 17 cm. Contemporary full and richly patinated vellum, slightly rubbed with missing triangle of vellum on the upper front hinge. Corners slightly worn. Recipes for stewed tongue, prawn curry, thornback, sauce Robart, buttered orange, many sophisticated now obsolete recipes; many instructions on dealing with servants. The Dictionary of National Biography: "the earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to completeness." The 1st edition of 1806 had only 290 pages. It went through dozens of editions, both legitimate and pirated, in both Britain and the United States (where the first edition was published in 1807).. Hardcover. Fair.

London, John Murray, 1824 Hardcover book . A new edition corrected. 449 pages with engraved frontispiece and nine other plates, all present. a nice complete copy of this scarce cookery volume prepared by one of the well know cookery experts of her day. The first page is for the use of the mistress of the family and begins " In every rank, those deserve the greatest praise , who best aquit themselves of the duties which their station requires" This copy has been rebound in dark green covers with gilt title to spine , new end-papers with inscription by a previous owner dated 1926 possibly when it was rebound, Contents are generally clean with some odd foxing spots and light wear to page and plate edges. Binding firm. Pictures available.