The Cook and Housewife's Manual

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1856. 688pp. Original publisher's green cloth, tamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Hinges exposed, leaves browned, contemporary ownership inscription to verso of half-title, manuscript lines from the Cowper's poems to RFEP. A handsome copy, in the original gilt-decorated cloth of a remarkably popular nineteenth-century cookery manual by journalist Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781-1857), collected… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. Upper board and outer spine missing. Lower board detached. Text block firm and bright. With several additional pages at end of volume containing hand written recipes in a contemporary hand. 1833. Fifth Edition. 190mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). 476pp. '...Containing a Compendium of French Cookery, and of Fashionable Confectionary, Preparations for Invalids and Convalescents, A… Read more about this item

Edinburgh / London: Oliver and Boyd / Simpkin Marshall & Co, 1837. (UK) Sixth Edition This is a professionally refurbished copy, rebacked, with the original cover boards and the original spine backstrip, new endpapers, with neat reinforcement to the hinge of the title page and the following page. Some of the pages… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1849. Book. Good. Buckram. Ninth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 683 pages. A practical system of modern domestic cookery and family management. The ninth edition, carefully revised and greatly enlarged, containing a compendium of French cookery, and of fashionable confectionary, preparations for invalids, a selection of cheap dishes, and numerous useful miscellaneous receipts… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1842. Book. Good. Buckram. Seventh Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 491 pages. A practical system of modern domestic cookery and family management. The seventh edition, containing a compendium of French cookery, and of fashionable confectionary, preparations for invalids, a selection of cheap dishes, and numerous useful miscellaneous receipts in the various branches of… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd Ltd, 1829. The Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged: containing a compendium of French cookery, and of fashionable confectionary, preparations for invalids, a selection of cheap dishes, and numerous useful miscellaneous reciepts in the various branches of domestic economy. Original binding, spine and boards. Spine lightly sunned and chipped, edge of title label worn off. Boards rubbed,… Read more about this item