Rules and Receipts for making all sorts of English Wines and all the choicest Cordials for the Closet 1737
Old English Wines and Cordials Rules and Receipts for making all sorts of English Wines and all the choicest Cordials for the Closet 1737
The High House Press, 1938.
First edition, number 60 of 215 copies. Bound in half burgundy morocco, lettered in gilt on the spine, gilt rules to the boards. Top edge gilt. Printed on an Albion hand-press by James Masters, with decorations printed direct from the original wood blocks. Decorated with excellent wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy.
The High House Press was one of the least pretentious and most admirable of the private presses. [Douglas Cleverdon, British Council Exhibition of British Printing 1950, Catalogue]
200 year old recipes from "The Whole Duty of a Woman: or an infallible Guide to the Fair Sex"
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