À la Mode Cookery. Up-to-Date Recipes. With Twenty-Four Plates, Sixteen of Which are Printed in Colours

London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1902. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus. 8vo. 19.5 by 14 cm. xiv, 242 pp. 24 plates, 16 in color. The 24 plates are on a glossy paper stock and not part of the pagination. The color illustrations, especially of the desserts, are striking visually -- they are like objets d'art, or even architectural in their structural panache. The cloth cover has a touch of sooty darkening, deepest on the spine. The leaves are fairly heavily browned, as per the paper stock used, with a few stray stains. (Inventory #: 20137)