Hardcover book in good condition.
Dust jacket intact, wrapped in plastic sleeve.
A bit rubbed along its edges and might have a few tiny edge chips. 
Minor shelf and handling wear, overall clean solid copy with minimal signs of wear. 129 Pages.

"In 1863 Mary Ann Loosley began to collect recipes contributed by her friends and relations". "The notebook mirrored the feast of a busy hospitable household and its varied circle, whose changing life and pastimes were also being recorded by generations of photographer cousins, in a trunkful of evocative pictures.