Henderson (William Augustus) The Housekeeper's Instructor; or, Universal Family Cook, first edition, engraved frontispiece, and 11 plates (of which one folding and another lacking half) small hole to title, slightly impacting text, ink manuscript recipes to free endpaper and title verso, ink inscription to front free endpaper and A3, a few short tears to margins, occasional surface marks, water-staining and spotting, contemporary half calf, spine faded, bumping to spine ends, splitting to upper joint, worn, 8vo, W. and J. Stratford, [1790] § Hunt (P. Francis) & Mary A. Grierson. Orchidaceae, 'out of series' copy from an edition of 600 signed by author and artist, 40 colour plates, original vellum, g.e., original slipcase, a little rubbed, folio, The Bourton Press, 1973, and 4 others, unrelated, v.s. (6)
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