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8vo, XIX, 752pp. Hardcover in brown morocco with beautifully embossed boards in green, tan and brown variants in very good condition with slightly worn top and bottom spine edges and abrasions on all four corners, all edges a little brown and soiled. HInges are weakening with early cracking evident though the spine remains overall sound, with no loose pages, text is in very good condition also on appropriately age-tanned paper with all sixteen colour plates present unscathed and the sixty-seven other illustrations in good order as well, devoid of all prior owner written notation other than a partially adhered white paper note attached to internal spine at fep. noting the early provenance (see below), with multiple printed advertisements for food items at front and rear with a 1909 sunday school prize plate on the front fixed endpaper. Easily still in VGC overall.. Privately procured from a dealer (originally from the library of John L. Marks, Chtppendale, Earlwood) at a Bowral bookfair then further sold on to the store in early 2023, this delightful treatise is amost timeless after nearly 120years with still viable recipes by this famous English journalist, editor and writer. One of the most famous cookery books ever written in beautiful condition with ample obvious patina of age.