8vo. 128 pp. Bound in original publisher’s cream-colored boards with the extended title stamped in decorative black letters on front cover, and “Confectionery” stamped in black on spine (dustsoiled and rubbed, chipped at bottom of spine). Inscribed on front fly-leaf “Miss M. Roberston, Loch Croft, Henenmouth, by Miss Ian.”
Pocket cookbook in charming original paper boards, containing more than 200 recipes for sweets (mostly), savories, and wines, with an index at the end. Here we find instructions for making all sorts of cakes, cheesecakes, tarts, biscuits, and pastries, such as “True Lovers’ Knots” (puff pastry with jam), wine biscuits, ratafia creams, potato fritters, oyster patties, lozenges with peppermint, six recipes for wine, &c., many of the recipes with helpful hints and notes on general principles of confectionery (and economy), emphasized by the occasional manicule. This particular copy passed between young female friends, as the inscription on the title-page attests.
OCLC and COPAC locate just 5 copies (UPenn, dated 1865 – the first edition? – and Michigan State, dated 1890; BL, Nat Lib of Scotland, Headington Library). A couple copies in commerce, none in paper boards as here. Not in the standard bibliographies.
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$400
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