The English and Australian Cookery Book : Cookery for the Many, As Well As the "Upper Ten Thousand". (Facsimile Edition and Companion Volume.)
Taroona (Tas,): The Culinary Historians of Tasmania, 2014. Two volumes. half-leather with gilt decoration. The English and Australian Cookery Book: colour frontis plate, colour plate, pp xxxii, 292, xii. Companion volume: b&w illus, pp 121, ii. In original illustrated slipcase. Slipcase bumped top corner, books in fine condition.
Complete facsimile edition published for the Sesquicentenary (1864 - 2014) of Abbott's pioneering cookery work, which is acknowledged as Australia's first cookbook. The companion volume (by the Culinary Historians of Tasmania) details the history of the author and the publication, with many illustrations. Item #100168
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