Description and condition:

Red cloth hardback, gilt titles, 16mo, 112pp, 6pp of adverts, b/w frontis of the author.

Good copy, moderate soiling to covers, several indentations to top of covers, fold developing down the middle of spine, nice clean pages. Lacks dustcover.

Contents:

By the grandson of Alexis Benoit Soyer. '...Moreover, expert cooking, which has hitherto been the luxury of the rich, can now be equally the privilege of the poor. The method can be used with equal success in the cottage and the mansion. No patent stove, no patent oven or apparatus, no patent or expensive appliances of any kind are required. All that is necessary is an oven (no matter what sort), a grid, and the paper bag...' The approved Soyer "Kookera" (regd.) bags where manufactured by James Spicer & Sons. An interesting work.