Culinary jottings : a treatise in thirty chapters on reformed cookery for Anglo-Indian exiles, based upon modern English, and continental principles, with thirty menus for little dinners worked out in detail and an essay on our kitchens in India
Madras : Higginbotham and Co. ; Calcutta : Thacker, Spink and Co. ; Bombay : Thacker and Co., Limited, 1885. Fifth Edition. Good copy only in the original gilt-decorated teal cloth boards, now rather dust-dulled overall with edges somewhat rubbed. Front joint cover split (holding internally); rear joint heavily worn and endbands fraying slightly. Front free endpaper coming loose, with some tearing to rear hinge (which remains strong). Extensive marginalia to prelims. Light foxing to edges, occasionally reaching into margins. A sound, readable copy overall. Item #460545
Physical description; x, [2], 533, [1] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; Written under the pseudonym "Wyvern." Preface to the fifth edition dated 1 July 1885. With head and tail pieces throughout. Includes index (pages [515]-533). Subjects; Cooking for military personnel. Cooking, British. Cooking India. Cooking, English. Cooking, Indic. 19th century.
Price: €125.00