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COOK And CONFECTIONER. The Complete Cook. Plain and Practical Directions for Cooking and Housekeeping; with Upwards of Seven Hundred Receipts. The Complete Confectioner, Pastry-Cook, and Baker. Plain and Practical Directions for Making Confectionary and Pastry, and For Baking; with Upwards of Five Hundred Receipts ...
Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, (1849). Ca 1849. Cf. Cagle 685 (listing a later issue, per adverts). 2 volumes in 1 (196; 154, [6] pp). Sectional t.p. for CONFECTIONER. Adverts last 6 pages. Frontis depicting 2 women at work in a mid-19th C kitchen. COOK illustrated by intra-textual cuts. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. General wear to binding, with stain to rear board. Staining & browning to paper, with the majority to beginning (t.p. especially) & terminal leaves. A VG copy. Item #32243
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