In all its branches reduced to a system of easy practice, for the use of private families.
Modern Cookery In all its branches reduced to a system of easy practice, for the use of private families.
Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, 1845.
First edition. Small 8vo. Original brown cloth with blind stamped decorative borders to the covers, plus gilt lettering and vignettes to the spine. 683 pages, plus catalogue of adverts dated December 1844. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts. A very good copy indeed with a little wear to the corners, a small chip to the rear free endpaper and previous owner's manuscript recipe for chutney to its verso. A generally bright and exceptionally well preserved example of a book seldom seen in unrepaired original cloth.
An important and influential work by "the best writer of recipes in the English language" (Delia Smith). The work introduced the convention listing the precise ingredients as well as a method. It was also the first to use the term 'Christmas Pudding' for a fully documented recipe.
The food writer, Elizabeth David regarded Acton as a kindred spirit and described her as a "peerless writer" in her introduction to "The Best of Eliza Acton" in 1968, musing on how she had come to be eclipsed by such inferior and inexperienced imitators.
Stock ID: 46854
£1,250.00
