The Cyclopædia of Practical Cookery:
Book Description
2 vols in 8 divisions. Colour fronts & plates, illus.; very light dusting. Loss of one third of leading f.e.p., division III (cut cleanly vertically). Orig. maroon cloth, dec. in black, lettered in gilt; Horizontal mark across back board of division VI, spines a little faded, sl. rubbing. a.e.g. A nice set.
Dealer Notes
Price 8/6 per each division. Scarce in the original binding. A wonderful production with period colour plates and hundreds of black & white illustrations. The Cyclopædia runs from Abat-Faim, a hunger-reducer, to Zweibachen, ‘the name of some famous German cakes’. Together with ‘Menus of Dinners, Suppers, and Luncheons, given on various important or historical occasions’, and a monumental index covering all 9 divisions. Division VII includes a folding double-page plate printed in silver illustrating ‘Artistic Serviettes’, numbers 1 and 2.
Author
(COOKERY) GARRETT, Theodore Francis, ed.
Date
1892
Binding
Orig. maroon cloth, dec. in black, lettered in gilt
Publisher
L. Upcott Gill.
Illustrator
Harold Furniss, George Cruikshank, W. Munn Andrews
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