Mrs A B Marshall's Cookery Book

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Fair
Dust Jacket:	No
Edition:	1st Edition
Impression:	1st Impression
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Marshall's School of Cookery
Publication Year:	1888
Publication Place:	London (The Table Office, 2 Newcastle Street, The Strand)
Book ID:	015644
Catalogue(s):	Food, Cooking and Household Management ◇ Vintage Books

[1888]. 468pp, plus 24pp of advertisements bound in at rear, with 77 illustrations in text. In green cloth boards, with blind rules at panel edges and gilt titles front and spine. Thick 12mo. Boards are mottled and marked, worn, rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Front paste down endpaper chipped and scuffed at edges, front free endpaper detached but present, mild stain on edge of first few pages, and corner portion missing from p.17 with some loss of text. Hinges cracked, resulting in loosening of binding. A scarce first edition of this influential cookery book from the late 19th century. Agnes Bertha Marshall was an unusually prominent businesswoman for her time, known particularly for her work on ice cream and frozen desserts, earning the moniker Queen of Ices.

Keywords:

Cookery Recipes Queen of Ices Frozen Desserts The Table