THE CONFECTIONER: A DESCRIPTION OF HIS BUSINESS IN ALL ITS BRANCHES Anonymous [Very Good] [Hardcover]

NOTE: Includes: ""Cooling Drinks for Balls and Routs"". 16mo. Boards 6 1/2 in. x 4 1/4 in. Brick-red boards stamped with black and gilt designs (laden cornucoipiae, flowers, a beehive, etc.central floral motif), cornerpieces and ruled borders, featuring The number ""8"" boldly appears on the cover because this treatise is, in fact, No. 8 in Houlston's Industrial Library, a pointed effort on the part of the publishers to disseminate information in a no-frills practical way, making it available to the beginning tradesman, or in this case, baker-confectioner. Lettering to spine also includes price ""1/6"" - one shilling, sixpence. [viii] pp. 160, 4 pp. adverts. Some staining to top margin, and some of the leading edges of the leaves. Very solidly bound, with only a hint of shelfwear -- some shelf-foldover, at top of spine. Apparently used, but very carefully, perhaps not that extensively. Small decorated initials and headpieces at chapter beginnings. One full-page illustration of ""Modelling Tools"", on p. 123. Topics covered include (but are not limited to) Syrup, Crystallilzation, Candy, Crack and Caramel, On Sugar Spinning, Chocolate, Lozenges, Pastile Drops, Jelliles, Marmalades or Jams, Compotes, Brandy Fruits, Cooling Drinks for Balls or Routs, Essences, Meringues, Mixing Colours, Distillation of Essential Lils, Spirits for Liqueurs, Ratafias, Comfits, plus sections on the Oven and The Stove.and more. Worldcat finds only two copies of the actual book in libraries worldwide and Library Hub Discover [formerly COPAC] locates three: The British Library, and the Wellcome Collection. A rare work on Confectionary. It was the publisher's stated opinion and intention (see Preface) that ""Much as there has been written in Cookery Books on the art of Confectionary, there are few works on the subject which are practically written, and these are for the most part expensive and beyond the reach of men of limited means. The object of the present Treatise is to supply a cheap but reliable work which shall convey instruction in as plain and concise a manner as possible to the inexperienced, or those young men who have served their apprenticeships at provincial towns, and are not acquainted with the metropolitan practice and its improvements; and also to apprentices, that they may be enable to learn their business more efficiently than many masters can or will instruct them in it.""