First edition in quarter cloth with paper over boards. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. The dust jacket is near fine with only minor sunning to spine. Price-clipped (with archival brodart) A scarce little volume by M.F.K. Fisher.
A Cordial Water. A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man or Beast.
Fisher, M.F.K.
A Cordial Water. A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man or Beast.
Fisher, M.F.K.
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co., Boston
Date published: 1961
Format: Hardcover
A charming collection of traditional remedies and folk medicines which have been prepared from Shakespeare's time to the present. First published in 1961, A Cordiall Water collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and intersperces them with autobiographical anecdotes from M. F. K. Edge-wear and some small chips to spine ends; spine a little sunned; closed tear to the front bottom corner. Old owner signature on ffep. Price intact inside flap ($3.95). First edition. 4¼" - 7".
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