COURT COOKERY: or, The Compleat English Cook. Containing the Choicest and Newest Receipts For making Soops, Pottages, Fricasseys, Harshes, Farces, Ragoos, Cullises, Sauces, Forc'd - Meats and Souses; with various Ways of Dressing most Sorts of Flesh, Fish and Fowl, Wild and Tame; with the best Methods of Potting and Collaring. . Also Of Pickling, Candying and Preserving: With a Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year, and the latest Improvements in Cookery, &c
Published by Printed for T. Wotton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street, London, 1723
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Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.Tavistock Books, ABAA
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[4], 112, [8 (Index)], 82, [14] pp. Index & 4 page advert concludes volume. The work is in two parts, each with a separate index; 'the first is devoted to cookery, the second to confectionary'. [Maclean]. Head- tailpieces 8vo: A4 B - H8 I4, 2A - F8. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4" The author describes himself as "Cook (under Mr. Lamb) to King William; as also the Dukes of Buckingham, Ormond, D'Aumont (the French Ambassador) and others of the Nobility and Gentry." In the preface, the author states, "It is true, there are several Books of Cookery already extant, but most of 'em very defective and erroneous, and others filled with old Receipts, that are impracticable at this Time." He goes on to denounce the work of his former chief, Patrick Lamb, who's work Royal Cookery had been published years earlier, and attacked him for pirating other people's receipts. [MacLean] General binding wear with front board mostly detached [supported by mylar wrapper]. Spine label chipped. Usual toning & foxing to paper. Withal, an About VG copy of a cook book uncommon in the trade. Period full panelled calf binding (old rebacking). Renewed eps. Custom-cut clear mylar wrapper 1st edition (Axford, p. 103 [for the 2nd edition]; Bitting, p. 440 [for the 2nd edition]; Cagle 1001; Maclean, p. 137; Oxford, pp 55-56; Vicaire, columns 794-795 [for the 1794 Dublin edition]. …
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- COURT COOKERY: or, The Compleat English Cook. Containing the Choicest and Newest Receipts For making Soops, Pottages, Fricasseys, Harshes, Farces, Ragoos, Cullises, Sauces, Forc'd - Meats and Souses; with various Ways of Dressing most Sorts of Flesh, Fish and Fowl, Wild and Tame; with the best Methods of Potting and Collaring. . Also Of Pickling, Candying and Preserving: With a Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year, and the latest Improvements in Cookery, &c
- Author
- Smith, R[obert]
- Publisher
- Printed for T. Wotton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street, London
- Publication year
- 1723
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- Hardcover
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- 1st Edition
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Tavistock Books, established in 1989, specializes in First Editions, Antiquarian Rare & Collectible bibliophilic material with a special focus on Charles Dickens. We maintain a stock of 3000 volumes, which may be seen by appointment or by chance when you are in the greater Reno Area, or by browsing our Web page @ www.tavbooks.com. Tavistock Books is a proud member of the Antiquarian Bookseller's Association of America, the Independent On-Line Booksellers' Association and the Grolier Club.…
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