Green cloth original covers with embossed frame to gilt design on both boards and gilt lettering to the spine. Looking a little tired with rippling to cloth, browning and brown marks as seen in photos. Foxing and age toning throughout the book, some places heavier than others but overall still firm with all plates present. 'Master Patent - Freezing, Cooling, Ice-preserving, and Churning Apparatus' and 'The Patent Rotary Knife-Cleaner, Polisher, &c.' with 2 plates bound at rear. xii, 198pp plus 2 pages on Ices, plus 8 pages. "The Ice Book: Being a Compendious & Concise History of Everything Connected with Ice from its first introduction into Europe as an article of luxury to the present time; with an account of the Artificial Manner of Producing Pure & Solid Ice, and a valuable collection of the most approved recipes for making superior water ices and ice creams at a few minutes' notice."