Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book; Containing most approved directions for purchasing, preserving, and cooking meat, poultry, game &c... With all the branches of pastry and confectionary. A complete family physician. Instructions to servants... Art of making British wines, brewing, baking &c.

London, Dean and Munday, 1816. . First edition; 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm); engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title, 4 engraved plates, bookplates of Charles William Orde of Nunnykirk and Benjamin Chapman, spotting to titles and occasionally to contents but overall clean; contemporary diced calf, spine gilt in compartments with Greek key roll, single fillet and delicate floral roll to boards, marbled endpapers and edges, a few small marks to the calf but overall a beautiful copy; 288pp. First edition and an unusually handsome, fresh copy in contemporary diced calf. The engraved frontispiece and additional title are particularly elegant. Hammond's Domestic Cookery was frequently republished but is rare in the first edition, with only one other copy appearing in recent auction records and four in JISC. As noted by Cagle in A Matter of Taste (720), this copy is dated 1816 in the engraved title and 1815 in the typographic title. He was unable to locate any copies beyond the one consulted, and the edition is not recorded in Bitting. Cagle, A Matter of Taste 720, Biting p. 211.