The Lady's Assistant For Regulating and Supplying Her Table, Being a Complete System of Cookery, Containing One Hundred and Fifty Select Bills of Fare, Properly Disposed For Family Dinners of Five Dishes, to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen; With Upwards of Fifty Bills of Fare For Suppers, From Five Dishes to Nineteen; and Several Deserts: Including Likewise, the Fullest and Choicest Receipts of Various Kinds, With Full Directions For Preparing Them in the Most Approved Manner, From Which a Continual Change May be Made, as Wanted, in the Several Bills of Fare
Charlotte Mason
Published by J. Walter, London, 1777
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A very rare and complete third edition of Charlotte Mason's popular work on housewifery, proving many recipes, and advice on how to run a household. The third edition of this work. ESTC citation number N12254. This work is an octavo, the signatures run as [A2], B-Z8, Aa-Ff8, Gg5. With an advert to the final leaf. With a final blank leaf. Collated, complete. 'The Lady's Assistant For Regulating and Supplying Her Table' is a good example of the typical housewifery and cookery works that were a common and popular market and genre that was booming in the eighteenth century. The author provides extensive bills of fare, showing meal plans for meals of a varying number of dishes and for varying family sizes. The author also shows how each dish should be laid out and presented on a table in the style of the eighteenth century. The work also includes numerous recipes of popular recipes that were commonly found in the eighteenth century. The author states her consciousness to using recipes that would not be too expensive to cook. Written by Charlotte Mason, who was a housekeeper of over thirty years experience working as a housekeeper for families of the first fashion. The third edition of this useful work of household economics. In a full calf binding, rebacked and repaired to the corners. Externally, generally smart. Rubbing to the spine and boards. Small loss of leather to the spine. Rear hinge is weak, though still remains attached to the spine by the leather. Front endpaper with some loss to the gutter and tail. Ink mark to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some spotting and marks. Small amount of loss to the tail of the title page, not affecting text. Small tear to the tail of page 45/46. Ink marks to pages 226/227. Small chip to the edge of page 323/324, not affecting text. Good. Seller Inventory # 655P39
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Title: The Lady's Assistant For Regulating and ...
Publisher: J. Walter, London
Publication Date: 1777
Binding: Leather
Illustrator: None
Condition: Good
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The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and Supplying her Table, Being a Complete System of Cookery, Containing One Hundred and Fifty select Bills of Fare, properly disposed for Family Dinners of Five Dishes, to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen; With Upwards of Fifty Bills of Fare for Suppers from Five Dishes to Nineteen; and Several Deserts; Including Likewise the fullest and choicest Receipts of various Kinds, with Full Directions For preparing them in the most approved Manner, from which a continual Change may be made as wanted in the several Bills of Fare. Published from the Manuscript Collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason, a Professed Housekeeper who had upwards of Thirty Years Experience in Families of the first Fashion.
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J. Walter, London, 1777
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Seller: Lok Man Rare Books. ABA/ILAB, Central, Hong Kong
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Third Edition. -- Bound in recent speckled half calf over marbled boards, preserving original burgundy morocco spine label. New endpapers. -- Condition: A near fine copy, one or two minor and faint finger marks and foxing to edges of several pages, in fine binding. -- Details: 'Mrs Mason's lucidly composed English makes her delightful recipes as easy to follow today as they were in the eighteenth century, enabling the adventurous modern cook to re-create the extraordinary food of the Age of George III without a great deal of difficulty. Her fascinating bills of fare are invaluable to historians of food and dining for the insight they afford into the mores of Georgian table service.' A particularly clean copy of this important but much neglected eighteenth century cookery book. Unusually, the table settings show layouts for more ordinary households as well as affluent ones, and the recipes follow this pattern. Scarce in any early editions. In the first edition of 1773, the book's author was described as 'a professed housekeeper, who had upwards of thirty years experience of families of the first fashion.' She was eventually identified in the second edition of 1775 as a Mrs. Charlotte Mason. Unfortunately, the families who employed this lady were not named and there are no other useful clues in the book concerning the details of her career, nor in any of the subsequent editions. Mrs. Mason remains a mysterious and elusive figure.' - Ivan Day, Food Historian, from his introduction to the 2011 reprint of the 8th edition. -- References: Pennell, My Cookery Books, 161. Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, 313. Cagle, A Matter of Taste 861. Vicaire, Bibliographie Gastronomique, 572 [Although incorrectly as Sarah not Charlotte]. Maclean, Household and Cookery Books, 95. Pennell, My Cookery Books, 161. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica ,1013. -- Octavo (Binding size 20 x 12.5 cm), pp. [iv] 436 [22]. --. Seller Inventory # 104652
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The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and Supplying her Table, being a complete system of cookery, containing one hundred and fifty select bills of fare, properly disposed for family dinners of five dishes, to two courses of eleven and fifteen; with upwards of fifty bills of fare for suppers, from five dishes to nineteen, and several deserts: including likewise. The fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds, with full directions for preparing them in the most approved manner, from which a continual change may be made, as wanted, in the several bills of fare. The second edition corrected, and considerably enlarged.
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Printed for J. Walter. 1775, 1775
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Hardcover
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
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vi, [2], 471, [21]pp, half title. 8vo. Some occasional foxing & marginal finger-staining, tear without loss to lower margin of one leaf of index, dusting & minor edge wear to final 5 leaves, endpapers & pastedowns rather browned. Contemporary calf, raised & gilt bands, red morocco label; joints, corners & spine expertly repaired. ESTC N10285, BL, Oxford, Leeds; Harvard, and Kansas. First published in 1773, this forms a valuable sourcebook for later 18th century English recipes, and was advertised as 'the most complete book of cookery hitherto extant'. It includes one of the earliest curry recipes calling for 'curree powder', and also one of the first descriptions on how to make a sandwich. Aimed at providing variety for daily family meals, rather than extravagant entertaining, here recipes mainly focus on familiar ingredients plainly prepared. Seller Inventory # 69781
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The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying her table, being a complete system of cookery, containing one hundred and fifty select bills of fare, properly disposed for family dinners of five dishes, to two courses of eleven and fifteen; with upwards of fifty bills of fare for suppers, from five dishes to nineteen; and several deserts: including likewise, the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds, with full directions for preparing them in the most approved manner, from which a continual change may be made, as wanted, in the several bills of fare: published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason, a professed housekeeper, who had upwards of thirty years experience in families of the first fashion.
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London: Printed for J. Walter, at Homer's-Head, Charing-Cross, M.DCC.LXXVII., 1777
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Seller: Cobnar Books, Deal, United Kingdom
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[4], 436, [24] p. Final advert leaf present. Third edition. Contemporary sheepskin binding as issued. It has some shelf wear with restored corners and a recent reback. The spine has raised bands and a contrasting label, with the original endpapers preserved. The text is clean and tight with the occasional signs of use which any good culinary book should show. Seller Inventory # 8117
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