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[003775] Hammond, Elizabeth. Modern Domestic Cookery; and Useful Receipt Book: Containing, Directions for Purchasing, Preserving, and Cooking, Every Kind of Meat, Fish, Poultry, Game, Etc. Etc. Complete Art of Trussing and Carving Etc. Etc.. London: A. K. Newman, Eighth Edition. 12mo. Hardback. Good. [3]-iv, [1], 6-2987pp, [1], 4p adverts. Original blind stamped cloth, rebacked with original back strip preserved. Smooth spine, title in gilt to spine, blind stamped volute patterns to covers

Original back strip chipped to spine ends, slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally very lightly browned, but generally clean and fairly bright. Book label of Peter Stewart Young to front pastedown. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title with vignette and four engraved plates by J. Munday. The adverts to the rear are printed on yellow paper

First published in 1815 (see Cagle 720), and with a sixth edition published in 1828, this undated eighth edition is probably c.1835. Oxford, pages 143-144 (1817 edition); Bitting (1818 edition), pages 211-212, noting the frontispiece and vignette are by Davenport after Corbould (which the ones here are presumably after)