SCOTT (William) Editor.. The House Book; or family chronicle of useful knowledge, and cottage physician: combining medicine, cookery, diet, general economy, health, sea-bathing, gardening, manufactures, arts, &c., &c. with the various branches of domestic concerns; including upwards of a thousand select recipes and prescriptions, from the best authorities; and a variety of other important information, for the use of families, invalids and convalescents.1826

Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. First Edition, xvi,614pp., engraved frontis., one hand-coloured botanical plate (often lacking), cont. calf, re-backed, orig. label laid-down. Cagle 984; Attar 270.1.