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Oxford University Press, USA, 2010-04-12. Hardcover. Used: Good.

London: William Heinemann . Clean, seventh edition hardcover in good condition; light shelf wear. No DJ, as issued. . Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. 1909.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: William Heinemann, 1904. New and Revised edition. Small octavo, pp xii, 390, a marginal manuscript X on one page, otherwise internally clean but a bit weak, the front hinge cracked and weak, the pages from the front endpaper through to page xii are in danger of becoming detached, green cloth a bit worn and marked. The rear blank has neat manuscript recipes for custard, wine or brandy sauce, and chocolate sauce. [The early editions of this work are quite scarce.]. New and Revised Edition. Cloth. Fair.

Oxford University Press, 2010-04-12. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

William Heinemann , London 1904 (new and revised edition). Green cloth lettered in gold on spine. In overall near very good condition, Some minor rubbing and light dust marks on edges. With just the endpapers a bit darkened / with inscription dated 1935. Else generally clean & tight. Size 7.25 x 5 inches pp.x / 390 pp. / cat. 2 pp.; The Table of ingredients is given with their Hindustani equivalents. Printed dedication: “To English Girls to whom fate may assign the task of being house-mothers in our Eastern Empire”. Chapters include: The Duties of the Mistress, accounts, the duties of the servants, hints on poultry, dogs, gardening, Hints to Missionaries and others living in Camp and Jungles, hints on Management of young children, simple hints on the preservation of health and simple remedies, on the hills, tables of wages, weights, etc.; general advice on Boiling, Frying, Roasting, Stewing, Baking / Soups, high-class entrees and garnishes, pastes and pastry, ices, native dishes, etc., etc.; Read More

Edinburgh & Bombay: Printed at the Edinburgh Press & Educational Society’s Press, 1893. 8vo, pp. xvi, 414, [2, ads]. Original cream cloth boards backed in red cloth, front board blocked in red. Shaken and rubbed, cloth soiled, stitching strained at title-page, advert leaf reinforced with sellotape, index flytitle loose and a few other leaves loosening, fragments of removed label to pastedown. Ownership inscription of Helen Franklyn (1895) to flyleaf, bookseller’s stamp of A. J. Combridge & Co. Bombay to pastedown, several additional recipes in pencil to rear endpapers, one or two other pencil notes. A scarce early edition of this popular guide to running a household in the British Raj, first published in 1888, reprinted with an index in 1889, and then revised and updated for this third edition, sometimes also appearing in Urdu translation. It reached a seventh edition by 1909 with further printings into the 1920s, and in 2010 OUP produced a facsimile of… Read More