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 third edition of Charlotte Mason's comprehensive cookbook - an important source of late 18th-century English recipes. Third edition.Published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason.Bound in full calf, rebacked, with handsome gilt-decorated spine and morocco spine label. Renewed endpapers. Advertisement to the verso of the final leaf.Offering an extensive selection of recipes and bills of fare, with dishes including rump au ragout, veal blanquets, oyster loaves, apple pudding, German puffs, snow-balls, sweetbreads and much more. Also containing an early example of a sandwich recipe, suggesting thin slices of beef, veal or ham as the filling.The author also shows how each dish should be laid out and presented on a table in the style of the eighteenth century. Bound in full calf, rebacked, with handsome gilt-decorated spine and morocco spine label. Externally, with a 1" crack to the head of the front joint. Front hinge is tender following front endpapers. Rubbing to the extremities. Light marks to the boards. Internally, front endpapers working loose due to front hinge, otherwise firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional toning and spots. Very Good.…