A NEW SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC COOKERY; FORMED UPON PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMY: AND ADAPTED TO THE USE OF PRIVATE FAMILIES by [RUNDELL, Maria Eliza Ketelby] - 1807

Vantage Press, 1977. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Vantage Press, 1977-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Cover has chipping, salutation written on inside front cover.

pp. 531 . Hardback. New.

London: John Murray. 1816. Hardcover. Lacks 8 leaves of text and plates 5-7, corners rounded, spine ends worn, still an attractive tight copy. ; Old half cloth, marbled boards and end-papers, [22], xxx, 354p. , lacks 143-146, 203-206, 239-242, 299-302 & plates 5-7. .

Legare Street Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Read Books. paperback. New. 5x0x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: John Murray, 1841. Cloth. Good Only. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. Maria Rundell's hugely successful recipe book, an illustrated edition of this immensely popular work. Illustrated with nine plates.Collared, bound without the frontispiece. 'A New System of Domestic Cookery' was the most popular cookery book of the first half of the nineteenth century, going over sixty-seven editions, and expanding almost double in lengths from revisions in later editions.First published in 1806, the work was applauded for its economic responsibility and cultural adaptability. The author also shows her opinion that housewives should have all of the mechanics needed to run a proper household, such as education and independence.Notable entries including possibly the first recipe for tomato sauce, and the first recipe in print for Scotch eggs. Written by Maria Eliza Rundell, who was best known for this work. She is sometimes considered to be the original domestic goddess. She begun collecting her recipes, household… Read More

London: William Tegg, 1868. Thick small octavo, [2], [iii]-xlviii, [49]-432 pages. [3] leaves of plates. Frontispiece. Originally printed in late 1805 but dated forward to 1806. The book went through dozens of printings. The author originally intended the book for use by her daughters, and borrowed a good number of the recipes in the original edition from her ancestor, Mary Kettilby. This has been called the "earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to completeness, it called forth many imitations." (DNB). Rubbing to edges of publisher's gilt and blind-stamped dark burgundy cloth. Hinges started, some soiling throughout. Good. [Not in Attar or Cagle].

London: John Murray, 1829. new edition. Very Good. small octavo. cloth binding xlix + 456pp., frontis., engraved pls., index, Neat ownership signature & some browning o/w VG tight copy with new end papers in modern cloth

Halifax [England], 1855. [4],350pp. plus 8 plates on 4 leaves. 12mo. Modern marbled boards, leather label. Some soiling, but very good. "New edition," enlarged, of this popular work, attributed to Maria Rundell. Originally published in 1814, the last edition noted by Lowenstein is that of 1844, "from the sixty-seventh London edition."