
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
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ACTON (ELIZA) The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use, 1857; Modern Cooking, 1855 (2)
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £535.50 inc. premium
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ACTON (ELIZA)
The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use, FIRST EDITION, additional wood-engraved title, 24pp. publisher's catalogue, publisher's cloth with gilt device on upper cover (faded), slight tear to top of front joint, inner hinge splitting [Bitting p.3; Simon BG 25], 1857; Modern Cookery for Private Families, Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts... Newly Revised and much Enlarged edition, 8 engraved plates, illustrations, bookplate of Alan Davidson, publisher's blind-stamped cloth, elaborate gilt spine with culinary motifs [cf. Bitting p.3], 1855, 8vo, Longmans, Brown (2)
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First edition of Acton's influential work on bread-making, along with a fine copy of her incredibly successful Modern Cookery, which was much admired by Elizabeth David.