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118 - [GASTRONOMY]. [RUNDELL, Maria E.
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[GASTRONOMY]. [RUNDELL, Maria E.]. A New System of Domestic Cookery; based on Principles of Economy, and Adapted to the Needs of Private Households. By a Lady. A New, Corrected Edition. Second English edition of the most popular cookery book of the first half of the 19th century, published by Maria Eliza Rundell (1745–1828). London & Edinburgh, W. Wilson for John Murray, J. Harding and A. Constable & Co., 1807. In-12, brown grained sheepskin, smooth spine decorated with double gilt bands, title label in red morocco. Contemporary binding (restored). XXX, 10 unnumbered folios (table of contents), 352 pp., 1 frontispiece and 9 plates. Text in English. Spine slightly creased, normal wear and tear. A few small foxing spots. Second, corrected edition of the most popular English cookery book of the first half of the 19th century, published by Maria Eliza Rundell (1745–1828) in 1806. Aimed at middle-class housewives, this publishing phenomenon sold around half a million copies during Rundell’s lifetime. As well as covering food preparation, the book offers advice on medicine and brewing, and includes a section entitled ‘Instructions to Servants’. The book contains a recipe for tomato sauce – probably the first in written history – and the first written recipe for Scotch eggs. Rundell also advises her readers to avoid waste. A very complete copy comprising pages 28 and 29a (numbered 28* and 29*), the frontispiece and the 9 plates. From the library of the French chef Raymond Oliver (1909–1990), with an ex-libris bearing his pseudonym ‘Rouvier de Vaulgran’. A fine copy.
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Auction time 11/02/2026 at 2:00 PM
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