Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts, Constituting a complete and universal practical library relative to..

Philadelphia; Pittsburgh: James Kay, Jun. & Brother; C.H. Kay & Co., 122 Chestnut St, 1834. Octavo (22.5 x 14 cm.), 456 pages. Index. Early printing, styled "A New American from the Latest London Edition. Printer's slug to title page: "Kay's Improved & Enlarged Edit." Copyright statement says 1829, no date on title, but the publisher, James Kay, Jr., and Brother, was located at the 122 Chestnut St. address, from 1834 or 1835 through 1843. (Shoemaker 39366). A comprehensive manual, with culinary, household and medical recipes for "agriculture, bees, bleaching, brewing, calico printing, carving at table, cements, confectionery, cookery, crayons, dairy, diseases, distillation, dying, enamelling, engraving, farriery, food, gardening, ...pickling, ...preserving, ...wines," etc. The wine section includes dozens of recipes for fruit wines, ciders, meads, and more. Some staining and light foxing throughout. Pencil scribbles to pastedowns, otherwise internally sound. Original tree calf, with spine titled and decorated in gilt. Ring stain to rear panel; rebacked, with original spine panel laid-down. Still better than usual condition for a useful receipt book. [Bitting, page 299; Cagle 505 (similar, but not same, printing); Lowenstein 133; Oxford, page 152; Shoemaker 39366; Wheaton & Kelley 3859].