RAFFOLD'S COOKERY IMPROVED BEING A COMPLETE FAMILY COOK HOUSEKEEPER'S ASSISTANT

[STEPHENSON, A.; RAFFALD, ELIZABETH]. Raffold's Cookery Improved; Being a Complete Family Cook, or, Housekeeper's Assistant: Containing Directions for Marketing, Also Instructions for Preparing Soups, Broths, Gravies, and Sauces; Likewise for Dressing Fish, Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Game, &c. With the Various Branches of Pastry and Confectionary; the Art of Potting, Collaring, Pickling, and Preserving; Together With the Making and Management of Made Wines; Directions for Carving and Bills of Fare for Every Month of the Year. London: Printed for the Bookseller; and for J. Kendrew, n.d. [c.1813].

FIRST EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; duodecimo (15 x 9 x 2 cm); pp. xii, 168. English text. Recent rebind in full cloth; 12 illustrations of first and second courses; with 2 illustrated plates of game meat; tail-pieces. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Covers very well-preserved. Interior with some staining and foxing throughout. Last leaf repaired with loss of bottom third. Extremely scarce.