Glasse (Hannah) The Compleat confectioner: or, the whole art of confectionary made plain and easy,
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Glasse (Hannah) The Compleat confectioner: or, the whole art of confectionary made plain and easy, first edition, first issue (with Mrs. Ashburner's in imprint), facsimiles of author's signature to end of dedication and at head of first f. of text, worming to lower margins, some water-staining at foot (mostly at start), occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine ends and corners worn, lower joint starting, but holding firm, some staining and marking, [Bitting p.190 (note); Cagle 707; Maclean pp.61-62; Oxford p.90; Simon BG 774], 8vo, Printed: And Sold at Mrs. Ashburner's China Shop, the Corner of Fleet Ditch...By I. Pottinger, at the Royal Bible, in Pater-Noster Row; and by J. Williams, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street, [c.1760].
⁂ Rare at auction, with the last copy we can trace being the Cetus copy at Bloomsbury Auctions, 22nd September, 2011 (lot 148).
⁂ Rare at auction, with the last copy we can trace being the Cetus copy at Bloomsbury Auctions, 22nd September, 2011 (lot 148).
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Glasse (Hannah) The Compleat confectioner: or, the whole art of confectionary made plain and easy,
Estimate £600 - £800
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