Kitchiner (William) The Housekeeper's oracle; or, art of domestic management, first and only edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of Kitchiner in classical guise, wood-engraved illustrations of carving in text, portrait offsetting onto to title, some spotting, lightly browned, B7&8 with marginal repairs, contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments, rubbed and scuffed, [Cagle 803; Oxford p.162; Simon BG 920], Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1829 § Volant (F.) & J.R. Warren, Soyer's secretaries and compilers & editors. Memoirs of Alexis Soyer; with unpublished receipts and odds and ends of Gastronomy, half-title, occasional spotting (particularly to endpapers), lightly browned, contemporary green half morocco, spine gilt, head of spine and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Oxford p. 183 (erroneously dating it 1869); Simon BG 1409], rare in commerce, W. Kent & Co., 1859; and a Lemco cookery manual, v.s. (3)