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A NEW SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC COOKERY
by Rundell, Mrs.; [Maria Eliza Rundell]
- Used
- Condition
- Very good plus.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1861. Very good plus.. Scarce Canadian edition of Rundell's guide to household management, first published by John Murray in 1806 to great and enduring popularity - with an incredible long folding wood-engraved frontispiece. The house of John Murray, 19th-century publishing titan and notorious destroyer of Byron's memoirs, owed a significant portion of its early financial success to Rundell's best-selling handbook, the first such book to be so thorough and well-ordered in its recipes and instructions on domestic economy.
The author initially asked no payment for the publication of her manuscript, but the "dreadful blunders" left uncorrected in early editions along with Murray's cavalier and contemptuous disregard of her concerns for the text eventually drove her to offer a revised version to a rival publisher. After some legal proceedings, Rundell was left with a £2000 settlement and immortal fame, but without the rights to her own book. A classic. 5'' x 3''. Original embossed olive cloth with gilt-lettered spine. 6 pages of publisher's advertisements bound as endpapers and fly leaves. Fold-out frontispiece. 376 pages. Early pencil name to verso of half title. Light wear and bumping, with minor tears to front and rear joints. Light chipping to frontispiece fore-edge. Faint foxing throughout.
The author initially asked no payment for the publication of her manuscript, but the "dreadful blunders" left uncorrected in early editions along with Murray's cavalier and contemptuous disregard of her concerns for the text eventually drove her to offer a revised version to a rival publisher. After some legal proceedings, Rundell was left with a £2000 settlement and immortal fame, but without the rights to her own book. A classic. 5'' x 3''. Original embossed olive cloth with gilt-lettered spine. 6 pages of publisher's advertisements bound as endpapers and fly leaves. Fold-out frontispiece. 376 pages. Early pencil name to verso of half title. Light wear and bumping, with minor tears to front and rear joints. Light chipping to frontispiece fore-edge. Faint foxing throughout.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50293
- Title
- A NEW SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC COOKERY
- Author
- Rundell, Mrs.; [Maria Eliza Rundell]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Milner and Sowerby
- Place of Publication
- Halifax
- Date Published
- 1861
- Keywords
- Woman Author,19th century,Food,Domestic Arts,Canadian,Victorian
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