S-, E- [IE ELIZA SMITH] - COMPLEAT HOUSEWIFE or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion: Being a Collection of Upwards of Five Hundred of the most approved Receipts in Cookery, Cakes, Pastry, Creams, Confectionary, Jellies, Preserving, Made Wines, Pickles, Cordials with Copper Plates
London, J. Pemberton 2nd Second Edition 1728 Six folding plates of menu place settings. . Octavo speckled calf gilt rules with 5 raised bands and red gilt spine label (one cover almost detached other hinge worn but held by cords, tips worn). Inscription on pastedown E. Fraser Hawkesbury Hall. Titlepage +[10]pp Preface) +[4]pp Bills of Fare +xv +318pp +2pp publisher's list with 6 folding plates. Wormhole 1-2inches in 1st 7 leaves affecting text, plates have a marginal damp mark and a few pages at end have a small damp mark at the bottom of the margin, otherwise a very crisp clean copy. *All editions up to the fifth were issued only under the initials of the author, as here.
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