Description and condition:

Green cloth hardback, gilt titles, 12mo, 238pp, index, text illustrations.

Good to very good, dulled spine, fraying to spine ends, bumped corners, nice clean pages. Lacks dustcover.

Contents:

A handbook of all the processes for the preservation of flesh, fruit, and vegetables, and for the preparation of dried fruit, dried vegetables, marmalades, fruit-syrups, and fermented beverages, and of all kinds of candies, candied fruit, sweetmeats, rocks, drops, drages, pralines, etc. Second English edition, translated form the German of the third enlarged edition.