Victorian cookery and housekeeping

Victorian cookery and housekeeping

A large collection, including:

de Salis (Mrs [Harriet Anne]) A collection of 17 volumes from the ‘a la Mode’ series, 6 First impressions, including: Soups & Dressed Fish, 1888; Dressed Vegetables, 1888; Gardening, 1895; Dressed Game, two copies, 1888; National Viands, 1895; Longmans, Green & Co.; some staining and spotting internally, original cloth-backed printed boards, worn; Youatt (William) & Martin (W. C. L.) The Hog…, reprint, engraved vignette to title and illustrations in text, publisher’s cloth, discoloured, some splitting to text block and spine extremities, C. M. Saxton, New York, 1862; Major (William Henry) Practical butchering: How to make it Pay, First edition, scarce, lacking frontispiece, 16 illustrations, browned, 25pp. adverts at rear, original cloth, discoloured, published by the author, [1900]; Waldemar-Leverton (Edith) Servants and their Duties: A Helpful Manual for Mistress and Servant, First edition, scarce, half-title, adverts to endpapers, browning, original pictorial cloth, some splitting to upper joint internally, C. Arthur Pearson, 1912; Watson (Alfred E. T.) Fur and Feather series [and] Fur, Feather and Fin series, 11 vols., 3 vols. later editions, browning and staining, various ink inscriptions, original pictorial cloth, 1890s; Cagle (William R.) A Matter of Taste. A Bibliographical Catalogue of International Books on Food and Drink in the Lilly Library, Indiana University, second revised edition, original dust jacket, New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Press, 1999; Collection of 20 ‘The Sainsbury Books of…’ series hardbacks; ‘Short’, Dinners at Home: how to order cook and serve them, First edition, some spotting and browning, 6pp. publisher’s adverts at rear, original pictorial cloth gilt, Kerby & Endean, 1878; Heritage (Lizzie) Cassell’s New Universal Cookery Book, early reprint, 12 coloured plates, later quarter morocco, 1896; the majority with modern bookplates, with others similar on cookery, v.s. (8 boxes) [not subject to return]