Confectionery.- Jarrin (William [Guglielmo] Alexis) The Italian Confectioner, or complete economy of desserts, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 2 folding plates of utensils and apparatus (the final 8pp. describe the items depicted in the plates), occasional contemporary ink marginalia, lacking initial blank, portrait with outer and lower margins strengthened verso and water-stained, plate I with small part of one fold strengthened verso, mostly marginal water-staining (mostly at foot), spotted, lightly browned, contemporary half calf, flat gilt spine in compartments and with black leather label, rubbed and marked, [Cagle 776 ; Oxford p.149; cf. Bitting pp.244- 245], 8vo, Printed for John Harding, 1820. *** Rare at auction. Jarrin was a confectioner at Gunter's in Berkeley Square. Provenance: ‘Mrs. H Brown, 1872, Warwick Castle’; Dorothy K. Thomas, 22, Crowndale Road, Knowle’ (ink inscriptions to front endpapers).