first edition Hardcover
1824 · New York
by Cobbett, William
New York: STEPHEN GOULD AND SON, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream cloth covered boards. Very good. 125 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Book plate of Jill Norman, culinary historian, author, and Elizabeth David's editor.
"Information relative to the brewing of BEER, making BREAD, keeping COWS, PIGS, BEES, EWES, GOATS, POULTRY, and RABBITS, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of the Labourer's Family; to which are added, instructions relative to the selecting, the cutting, and the bleaching of the Plants of ENGLISH GRASS and GRAIN, for the purpose of making HATS and BONNETS." Tipped in at title page, engraving of three (truncated)
"Information relative to the brewing of BEER, making BREAD, keeping COWS, PIGS, BEES, EWES, GOATS, POULTRY, and RABBITS, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of the Labourer's Family; to which are added, instructions relative to the selecting, the cutting, and the bleaching of the Plants of ENGLISH GRASS and GRAIN, for the purpose of making HATS and BONNETS." Tipped in at title page, engraving of three (truncated)