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The Practice of Cookery, Pastry, and Confectionary. In Three Parts.<br />By Mrs. Frazer, Confectioner, and Teacher of These Arts in Edinburgh.<br />With Plates.
by Frazer, Mrs
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Printed for the Author and sold at her house, Miln's Square, Opposite the Tron Church., 1820. The Seventh Edition, Enlarged and Improved. (First published 1791). Hardback. 8vo. xii, 312pp. Two plates at front. Rebacked in modern brown leather with contrasting red and black panels to spine with gilt. Red silk page marker. New endpapers. No jacket. Divided into the three parts:- Cookery, Pastry and Confectionery. Book in very good condition. Text block sound and clean with just an occasional small mark. Some light creasing to a few page corners. (Bitting, San Francisco, 1939, p166).
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- Title
- The Practice of Cookery, Pastry, and Confectionary. In Three Parts.By Mrs. Frazer, Confectioner, and Teacher of These Arts in Edinburgh.With Plates.
- Author
- Frazer, Mrs
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for the Author and sold at her house, Miln's Square, Opposite the Tron Church.
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1820
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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