MUSKETT, Philip E [Edward (1857-1909)] 
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The Art of Living in Australia: (together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs H Wicken, lecturer on cookery to the Technical College, Sydney). London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Melbourne, Sydney and New York: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Her Majesty's printers [1894]. First Edition. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode. Octavo (185x130mm) full forest green morocco-grain padded leather over boards, white metal monogram "P E M" to upper board, spine in five compartments, raised bands, gilt lettered; all-edges gilt; double gilt-ruled turn-in, marbled end-papers, coloured headbands, [half-title],xxix,[1 blank],431,[1 advertisement],[2 blank]pp. Upper joint lightly rubbed, top front hinge small blemish, verso of end-papers and the gutter of a few preliminaries lightly foxed, not affecting the text; pencil and ink date notations to title-page bottom edge; faint sporadic foxing to the margins of a few pages, else fine. Lacks marker ribbon.
¶ An important early work of Australian dietary reform, combining medical, agricultural and culinary observation with an extensive practical recipe section. Muskett, a Sydney physician and health reformer, examines the relationship between Australian climate, diet and food production, with chapters on agriculture, market gardening, deep-sea fishing, cookery education and wine. He argues for a distinctly Australian diet adapted to the climate, favouring fish, vegetables, fruit and wine over the prevailing meat- and tea-based regimen, and makes detailed recommendations for the development of Australian viticulture. Part II, Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information, by Harriet Wicken, comprises 300 recipes, many costed, together with practical instruction in household cookery. The work is notable for its unusually broad conception of Australian food culture, treating diet not merely as domestic practice but as a matter of public health, agriculture, commerce and national development. Muskett’s wider writings and lectures similarly promoted dietary improvement and cookery education, particularly in relation to women, children and Australian conditions. He was also remembered by the Sydney bookseller James Tyrrell as a keen bibliophile. The present copy is distinguished by an unusually elaborate contemporary binding incorporating Muskett’s initials in white metal. In the absence of a recorded binding of this type, and given Muskett’s bibliophilic interests, it may plausibly have been his personal copy or a presentation copy; the identification, however, remains conjectural. An excellent and unusually fine-bound copy, with intriguing possible provenance. § Of the first and only edition, few institutional holdings are recorded outside Australasia and the United Kingdom; this binding is unrecorded. § Hoyle 919; Austin p.10; Ferguson 13038; Driver 747.1, all describing the publisher’s standard blue-cloth issue. Item #10044
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