Estimate: | £50 - £80 |
Hammer price: | £90 |
BISHOP, Frederick ([dates unknown]). The Wife's Own Book of Cookery. London: Ward and Lock, [1856]. 8vo (187 x 125mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece, additional wood-engraved title, folding plate of "The Royal Kitchen at Windsor", illustrations (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original pictorial cloth gilt (minor repairs to head and foot of spine, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Isabella [?]Brown, April 1886 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. Bitting p.40; Cagle 567.