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Edition of 1808 by the Albion Press. The binding has been rebacked and otherwise professionally restored, new endpapers. The title page, preliminaries and aftermatter are foxed and stained with scattered foxing throughout. Pages 569-70 are professionally repaired with no loss of text. Pages 399-404 replaced in facsimile otherwise complete. 634 pages, indexed, 10 pages of woodcuts. Preface dated 1808. A good sound copy of this important Georgian cook book which was "printed for James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, London : Printed by James Cundee, Ivy-Lane". Duncan Macdonald was the head cook at the celebrated Bedford Tavern, Covent Garden. "The new London family cook, or, Town and country housekeeper's guide : comprehending directions for marketing, with illustrative plates, on a principle entirely new : general observations, and bills of fare for every week in the year : practical instructions for preparing soups, broths, gravies, sauces, and made dishes, and for dressing fish, venison, butcher's meat, poultry, game, &c. in all their varieties : with the respective branches of pastry and confectionary, the art of potting, pickling, preserving, &c. : cookery for the sick, and for the poor : directions for carving and a glossary of the most generally received French and English terms in the culinary art : also a selection of valuable family recipes, in dyeing, perfumery, &c. : instructions for brewing, making of British wines, distilling, managing the dairy, and gardening : and an appendix, containing general directions for servants relative to the cleaning of household furniture, floor-cloths, stoves, marble chimney-pieces, &c. ; concluding with an alphabetical list of the most respectable manufacturers and dealers in the various articles connected with domestic economy : forming in the whole a most complete family instructor." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!