(Victorian) H.E.C. The Pot-Luck Cookery Book. Shellfish Rubbing and chipping to spine

Rubbing and chipping to spine (with pieces lacking from upper spine)

Millet Roux Mushroom Gumbo

Soiling and light smudges to covers

playwright Sherwood Anderson

(Victorian) H.E.C. The Pot-Luck Cookery Book. Shellfish Rubbing and chipping to spineIllus. with color plates. Pictorial orange and black cloth. First Edition. London: Maclaren, c. 1890 1900. An absolutely charming book of English recipes, with color plates showing meats of varying quality, dainty cakes, and other elaborate dishes. An ad for Victorian era cooking apparatus is on rear pastedown. And of course, the cover illustration of food animals and eggs dancing in a circle is marvelous. haricot of ox tail, fish pasties, arrowroot