CAKES AND CONFECTIONS A LA MODE by De Salis - 1889

London: Longmans Green and Co., 1889. Good. A companion volume to puddings and pastry. Brown boards with swans and ships. blue spine. bumped and chipped.Inscription in ink inside front cover. Clean pages and tight binding, the inside pages front and back are foxed. AB76

Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1902. Sixth Impression. 61 pages. No dust jacket. Blue and brown cloth. Pages have noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Notable liquid staining throughout. Mild scuffing to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to surfaces. Notable scuffing to edges.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1893. Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 5". Not Stated. A third edition of this sweet-toothed cookery work written by Mrs. de Salis. Including such recipes as Albert cake, Christmas cake, nun's cakes, sand cake, yolk cake, macaroons, ginger biscuits, coffee ice cream, mushroom of meringue and wafer paper.Written by Harriet Anne de Salis, a chef and writer of cookery books. Her other works include 'Entrees a la Mode', 'Soups and Dressed Fish a la Mode', 'Savouries a la Mode' and 'Oysters a la Mode'.A third edition of this work. In a quarter cloth binding. Externally a little worn, with some edgewear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine; boards are a little worn. Internally, generally firmly bound; front hinge is exposed but firm.. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd mark. Very Good

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1902. Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 5". None. A smart sixth impression of this delightful collection of cake recipes. Sixth impression. A charming collection of recipes for cakes and confections, from African cakes and angel cakes, to syllabubs and wafer paper. Includes a detailed index for cakes, biscuits, doughs, and more. Written by Harriet Anne de Salis, a prolific and popular English author of cookery books with a regular column in Lady's Realm Magazine. In the original quarter blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with marks to pages 54 and 55 only. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good