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[005040] Edlin, A.[braham] A Treatise on the Art of Bread-Making. Wherein the Mealing Trade, Assize Laws, and Every Circumstance Connected with the Art, is Particularly Examined. London: J. Wright for Vernor and Hood, 1805. First Edition. 12mo. Hardback. Good. [5], vi-xxiv, [1], 2-216pp, plates. Publishers blue boards, rebacked with modern title label to spine

Rubbed to extremities, corners lightly bumped, edges of text block untrimmed and lightly browned. Internally an occasional hint of foxing to margins but generally quite clean. With four, of five, folding price of bread tables to rear, ie. lacking table A, A Table of the Price of Wheaten Bread

Former owner’s bookplate to front pastedown (John L. Marks), and from the library of the chef Antony Worrall Thompson, but without indicia of this

Includes recipes for acorn, chestnut, and turnip bread

Uncommon

Bitting, page 140; Cagle 662; Goldsmiths 19049; Simon BG 584