Alice Massingberd — Plain Directions on Cookery

London, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, 1898. Cloth. A very scarce and charmingly brief simple late nineteenth century cookery work, by Alice Massingberd. The second edition of the first part of this scarce work by Alice Massingberd.Consisting of nine chapters, Massingberd covers basic but important aspects of the culinary arts, from choice of saucepan and how to clean them to 'the best way of using tinned provisions', to the preparation of vegetables, gravy and stock.With inscriptions to the front pastedown.A very scarce late nineteenth century culinary work. In the publisher's original printed paper wraps. Lacking back strip. Significant mark to rear wrap head. Inscriptions to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean, with only the odd spot. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .