THE ENGLISH BREAD-BOOK FOR DOMESTIC USE, ADAPTED TO FAMILIES OF EVERY GRADE: Containing the Plainest and Most Minute Instructions to the Learner; Practical Receipts for Many Varieties of Bread; with Notices of the Present System of Adulteration, and Its Consequences; and of the Improved Baking Processes and Institutions Established Abroad.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. The scarce first edition of Acton's influential work on bread-making. "A serious and scholarly account of the history of bread and its making, with a severe attack on the malpractices of bakers and millers in adulterating the product, this also contained recipes for the home bread maker" (ODNB). From the Lucille Fillin Cookbook Collection, with the bookplate to the front flyleaf. Small octavo: [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-204, [24, ads] pp. with additional advertisements printed on the pastedowns. In the publisher's brown cloth binding, with decorative gilt-stamped titling, blind-stamped borders, and brown endpapers. The contents are especially crisp. The binder's ticket appears on the rear pastedown, with a period bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown. Some general edgewear to the boards, which are still quite clean and bright. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase with a gilt-stamped brown morocco spine. Bitting 3; Cagle 537. Very good. Item #80346
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