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Author: [Kitchiner, William]
Title: The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co.
Date Published: 1822
Description:

viii, [2], 298, [2] pp. 18.5x10.5 cm (7¼x4"), cream backed blue paper boards, paper spine label.

A lifestyle book by William Kitchiner M.D. (1775-1827), an English optician, inventor of telescopes, amateur musician and cook. A celebrity chef, he was a household name during the 19th century, and his 1817 cookbook, The Cook's Oracle, was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and the United States. Unlike most food writers of the time he cooked the food himself, washed up afterward, and performed all the household tasks he wrote about. He traveled around with his portable cabinet of taste, a folding cabinet containing his mustards and sauces. Bookplate of Baron Northwick on front pastedown.

Provenance: George Rushout, 3rd Baron Northwick (30 August 1811 - 11 November 1887), was a British Conservative politician.

Light wear to paper boards, chipping to top of spine; binding good, faintly age-toned, foxing to front and rear pages but clean throughout; very good.