The jacket, protected with plastic sleeving, has a closed tear parallel to the tail of the spine and the boards have lifted. Else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. 48 pages, indexed and illustrated. "Specially produced for readers and colectors interested in the everyday life of eighteenth and early nineteenth century England, the first in [The Living Past series] to offer a tempting selection of genuine recipes and notes gleaned from family recipe albums of the time. " (front flap) No publishing date given, Trove offers 1970s.