The Universal Cook, and City and Country Housekeeper. Containing all the Various Branches of Cookery . The Whole Embellished with The Heads of the Authors, Bills of Fare for every Month . elegantly engraved on fourteen Copper-Plates.

Collingwood (Francis) and John Woolams.

Published by London: R. Noble for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, 1792. First edition.

About this Item

Modern beige cloth, printed paper spine label. Frontispiece, 12 Bill of Fare Plates for the individual months, and a plate of carving options at page 320. Repaired tear in the frontispiece (between portraits, not affecting images), edges of the first leaf and several final leaves chipped and browned at edges, moderate foxing of the plates; a very good copy. Hand-written recipes on several leaves: verso of the January Bill of Fare Plate (Cherry Bounce); verso of page 451 (Thick Ginger Bread); final two blank leaves (Light Cake / Cherry Bounce again? / Currant Shrub). The first edition of this English cookbook, which was reprinted in 1797 and 1801. A French edition was produced in 1810. Cagle: A Matter of Taste, 625.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Universal Cook, and City and Country Housekeeper. Containing all the Various Branches of Cookery . The Whole Embellished with The Heads of the Authors, Bills of Fare for every Month . elegantly engraved on fourteen Copper-Plates.
• Publisher: London: R. Noble for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, 1792. First edition.
• Binding: Hardcover
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