THE FEMALE'S BEST FRIEND, OR THE YOUNG WOMAN'S GUIDE TO VIRTUE ECONOMY AND HAPPINESS: containing a complete modern system of cookery, formed upon principles of economy for private families.... by POOLE, Watkin. COMPILER and EDITOR.:

Manchester, printed and published by J. Gleave and Son, 191, Deansgate, 1826.. To which are added, instructions to female servants of every description; advice to the young mother; rules for the treatment of infants; directions for nursing, and for the management and education of children; useful hints for the sick chamber; and for promoting matrimonial happiness: illustrated by moral and religious essays, tales, and memoirs of illustrious females, eminent for their piety, virtue, and accomplishments. The whole being an improved and pleasant directory for cultivating the heart and understanding, and a sure guide to every acquirement for forming a pleasing companion, a respectable mother, and a useful member of society. A new edition, edited and compiled by Watkin Poole. 8vo, approximately 220 x 130 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, engraved frontispiece, added engraved title plus 12 engraved plates as listed in plate list at rear, pages: viii, [3], 10-694, rebound at sometime in reverse calf, gilt lettered black title label, new endpapers. Binding slightly rubbed, frontispiece and engraved title foxed and dusty, all engraved plates have staining of varying degrees, no loss to images, small adhesion to text from 1 plate with slight loss, pale browning to 7 pages of text between the plates, and to index, pale stain to many lower margins with the odd dusty spot, but most pages clean, a little damage to first two endpapers, small tear with loss to one outer margin, not affecting text, old ink name to first endpaper, occasional small fox spot or small stain, otherwise an acceptable copy of an uncommon book. Three copies only listed in Copac. See: William R. Cagle, A Matter of Taste, pages 673-674, No. 936, "This is the only edition mentioned by Attar and Oxford and no other other edition has been found"; Arnold Whitaker Oxford, English Cookery Books to the Year 1850, page 160-161. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.