The Wife's Own Book of Cookery, Containing upwards of Fifteen Hundred Original Receipts, prepared with great care, and a proper attention to economy, and embodying all the latest improvements in the culinary art; accompanied by Important Remarks and Counsel on the Arrangement and Well-ordering of the Kitchen,combined with Useful Hints on Domestic Economy. The whole based on many years constant practice and experience; and addressed to Private Families as well as the Highest Circles - Frederick Bishop Circa 1856 - Ward and Lock, London - First Edition A nice example of this early work in the publisher’s original gilt cloth. Illustrated with a large folding plate of the Royal Kitchen at Windsor (opposite page 384), engraved frontispiece, additional engraved illustrated title page and 250 engravings in the text.

Written by Frederick Bishop ‘Late Cuisinier to St. James’s Palace, Earl Grey, The Marquis of Stafford, Baron Rothschild, Earl Norbury, Captain Duncombe, and many of the First Families in the Kingdom’.   Provenance: Contemporary name of a Miss Maughan to the illustrated title page.

References: Bitting Gastronomic Bibliography, page 40. Cagle A Matter of Taste, 567.

Octavo (book size 19.7x13.5cm), pp. xvi 398 [2 (publisher’s advertisements)]. In publisher’s original brown cloth, decorated in blindspine and upper cover with addiitonal gilt text and decorations, yellow coated endpapers, all edges trimmed.   Condition: Near fine, some light stainig to one or two pages, split to lower fold of folding illustration.   Ref: 112203   Price: HK$ 2,000