The American Family Receipt Book: Consisting of Several Thousand Most Valuable Receipts, Experiments, &c., &c. Collected From Various Parts of Europe, America, and Other Portions of The Globe.

"The American Family Receipt Book: Consisting of Several Thousand Most Valuable Receipts, Experiments, &c." Reprinted from the American edition and published in London in 1854, this compact household reference gathers thousands of recipes, experiments, and practical receipts collected from Europe, America, and other parts of the world. With a particular emphasis on medical treatments, it offers a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century domestic knowledge and traditional household remedies.

Twenty-fourmo (3.5" x 4.25"). 447 pages. Bound in full red cloth with an elaborate blind-stamped border framing a gilt vignette of a table laden with food. The spine features overall gilt decoration, four gilt vignettes, and gilt lettering. Yellow endpapers and an engraved frontispiece complete the volume.

The binding shows edgewear, bumped and rubbed corners, ruffled spine ends with closed tears and some color loss, and a sun-darkened spine. The boards are lightly soiled, and the spine material is beginning to separate. The pages are toned, with small spots of foxing at the beginning and end of the text block.

An appealing pocket-sized Victorian reference for collectors of antique cookbooks, folk medicine, traditional remedies, and nineteenth-century domestic life.