4 (ads), (2 blank), [4 ads], xxviii, 350, [2 ad] pp. 12 woodcut illustrations in text. (8vo) original green cloth, paper spine label. Second Edition.
First published earlier in the same year in Edinburgh in 2000 copies which sold out in less than five months. This revised and enlarged second edition, which was preceded by two American editions, also sold out quickly, and no less than 19 editions of this popular work were published. Andrew Combe (1797-1847), an Edinburgh physician and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, did much to promote popular interest in healthy living. Wellcome, II, p. 376. BLC (Readex edition), Vol. 6, p. 5, col. 337. See Atwater Catalogue, I, 731, listing the NY, 1836 First American edition. See also Atwater Catalogue, I, 732-735. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, 370, cites an Edinburgh, 1836 copy but does not state which edition it is. Not in Bitting, Cagle, or Vicaire."
Condition:
Binding worn and with some staining, hinges cracked, front hinge partially open; dampstain to early leaves; good.