INTRODUCTION. 



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Upwards of twenty-five *years have 

 elapsed since the author published the 

 first edition of the present work ; and the 

 rapid sale of twenty-one impressions has 

 established its character upon a founda- 

 tion, and in a manner the most gratiifying 

 and most honourable to himself.* 



The new and enlarged edition now of- 

 fered to the public has been undertaken 



* It was intended to have published the Nevr Recipes and 

 iraprovements as an Appendix, to accommodate the purchasers 

 of the former editions of this work j without subjecting thein 

 to the expence of purchasing the present impression ; but as a 

 revision of the whole Work, and to incorporate the new matter 

 under its proper title was found to be indispensably necessary, it 

 was utterly impossible to give the numerous addilions and 

 improvements in that form. 



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