£750.00
Author: A Lady
Publisher: Derby, Henry Mozley, 1818
Written upon the most approved and economic principles, and in which, every receipt has stood the test of experience. By a Lady.
First edition. Early ownership signature of Ann Heyes on the title and Ann Birkett (presumably her married name) on the first blank.
12mo., rebound in drab paper backed boards with printed paper spine label. Frontispiece, title page vignette, 6 plates of place settings. Pp. [3] 14-171 [9 (table of when different fish are in season, index]. A little occasional browning, scorch (?) mark to upper margin of pp.163-171, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce item.
This edition unrecorded except in Cagle 877/ Oxford, p.149 records the 2nd edition of 1820, Axford, p.274 & Bitting p.579 the 8th edition & Simon BG 1060 the tenth, 1856.
World Cat lists only 3 copies in the US in Michigan, Lamar and Indiana Universities and COPAC adds only one more copy in the Brotherton Library in Leeds, with the same pagination as here.