The New Family Receipt-book, Containing Seven Hundred Truly Valuable Receipts in Various Branches of Domestic Economy; Selected from the Works of British and Foreign Writers of Unquestionable Experience & Authority, And from the Attested Communications of Scientific Friends

London: Printed by Squire and Warwick for John Murray, 1810. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. Rebound in 3/4 leather with marbled paper over boards. New endbands. Red leather spine label with "Family Receipt Book" stamped in gilt. With rubbing to the extremities, contemporary notations on the endpapers and front flyleaf, and a contemporary owner's inscription on the title page. Also with sporadic hatching in pencil in the margins. A book of domestic economy covering Agriculture, Angling, Useful Arts, Brewing, Building, Canary Birds, Cattle, Clothes, Culinary Art, Curiosities (Rules for collecting curiosities on sea voyages), Dairy, Distilling, Gardening, Perfumes, and much more.