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1913 · réf. BIBLIO-16654 — Oxford University Press Oxford first edition 1913. Cloth gilt cover-title small 8vo. 192 pp. Approximately 400 entries. The "most detailed and exhaustive treatment of English cookery books" - Bitting. Oxford provides careful descriptions and in many cases substantial annotations. He notes in his introduction that his own interest is principally in the combination of cookery with medicine which is found in many of the earlier books. Presentation Copy inscribed "from A W O" on front free endpaper.Spine-ends rubbed minor rubbing to boards short inscription on front free endpaper age-toning to page edges otherwise Good in a browned marked and torn with some loss dustwrapper. Oxford University Press, Oxford, first edition, 1913 hardcover