The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use, Adapted to Families of Every Grade: Containing the Plainest and Most Minute Instructions to the Learner; Practical Receipts for Many Varieties of Bread; with Notices of the Present System of Adulteration, and its Consequences; and of the Improved Baking Processes and Institutions Established Abroad, by Eliza Acton. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857.
First edition. Pebbled cloth, gilt lettering to spine and decorations to front board. xii, 204 pp. plus 24 pp. publisher's ads. Additional pictorial title page. Publisher's ads to the pastedowns.
Heavy wear to exterior, with cloth rubbed and fraying at the spine ends and joints, corners bumped and rubbed, and some wear and soiling to boards. Spine cocked. Hinges tender. The '1857' date has been removed from the bottom of the title page, with corresponding wear to the paper where it had been. Occasional light foxing or minor stains to interior. Gutter partially exposed in places.
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