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| [KITCHMER (WILLIAM)] Apicius Redivivus. The Cook’s Oracle: containing practical receipts. For roasting, boiling, frying... &c, &c, on the most economical plan for private families; also, the art of composing the most simple, and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, Printed for John Hatchard. 1818. Second Edition, large 12mo, revised, lvii,[i],59-592,[8 of music],pp., engraved frontispiece (foxed) of marketing table and eight pages of music titled “Anacreontic Song” at end, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, leather label to spine, uncut. The convivial song concludes (con spirito) ‘Let me while I live entwine the joys of friendship, love and wine’. Cagle 798; Bitting, p.262; Oxford, p.146. GBP 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 360.5 US$ 539.83 | JP 47691] Book number: 24993 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| HUDSON (MRS) & DONAT (MRS) The New Practice of Cookery, Pastry, Baking, and Preserving: Being the Country Housewife’s Best Friend. By Mrs Hudson & Mrs Donat, Present and Late Housekeepers and Cooks to Mrs Buchan Hepburn of Smeaton, and Published by Her Permission. Printed by J. Moire, Edinburgh. 1804. First Edition, xii,[3]-242pp., without the final errata leaf, title slightly stained, some light browning, recent half calf, leather label to spine. A rare Scottish cookery book, listing some 442 receipts. Copac listing the National Library of Scotland and Brotherton Library copies only. GBP 725.00 [Appr.: EURO 804.25 US$ 1204.23 | JP 106389] Book number: 24847 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| DRIVER (ELIZABETH) Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain 1875-1914. Prospect Books. 1989. First Edition, 4to, 748pp., 26 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Gives full details of about 1200 individual cookery books published in Britain, with many of their subsequent editions. GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 US$ 99.66 | JP 8805] Book number: 23153 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| COOKERY. FRAZER (MRS) The Practice of Cookery, Pickling, Preserving, &c. Containing Figures of Dinners, from Five to Nineteen Dishes, also a List of Supper Dishes; also a List of things in Season, for every month of Year, and Directions for Choosing Provisions: with Two Plates Printed for Peter Hill, Edinburgh. 1791. First Edition, xiii,[i blank],254pp., lacks front-free endpaper, 2 copper-engraved plates, cont. half, rubbed, cont. red morocco label to spine. “The author describes herself as ‘sole teacher of these arts in Edinburgh, several years colleague, and afterwards successor, to Mrs M’Iver [sic] deceased’. Her work is clearly based on a book published by her colleague in 1773.”—Maclean. Mclean, p.55; Bitting, p.167; Cagle 689; Oxford, p.120; Vicaire 375. GBP 475.00 [Appr.: EURO 527 US$ 788.98 | JP 69703] Book number: 24153 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| HARRISON (SARAH) House-Keeper’s Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook: Containing Above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, Collaring, &c. Printed for J. Rivington and Sons. 1777. Ninth Edition, revised and corrected, large 12mo, [iv],208,[32]pp., title a little browned around margins, some lightl water staining to rear, recent half calf, leather label. GBP 245.00 [Appr.: EURO 271.75 US$ 406.95 | JP 35952] Book number: 23044 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| MASON (CHARLOTTE) The Lady’s Assistant for Regulating and Supplying the Table; being a complete system of cookery... including the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds... Likewise directions for brewing, making English wines, raspberry, orange, and lemon-brandi Printed by C. Whittigham for J. Walter. 1801. Ninth Edition, enlarged, corrected, and improved, [xviii],422,25,[21],4,8pp., new endpapers, nicely bound in half calf, marbled paper boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt. Although the title states this is the “eighth edition”, it is in fact the ninth as there are seven eighteenth-century editions after the first edition of 1773. Cagle 864. GBP 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 327.25 US$ 490 | JP 43289] Book number: 24992 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| MOXON (ELIZABETH) English Housewifery, Exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery... With cuts for the orderly placing the dishes and courses; also bills of fare for every month in the year; and an alphabetical index to Printed by Thomas Wright for William Fawdington, Leeds. 1785. Twelfth Edition, corrected, 12mo, viii,5-203,[1],33,[27]pp., the appendix has separate title-page and pagination, and is entitled ‘English housewifery improved; or, a supplement to Moxon’s cookery. ... The fifth edition, Printed by Thomas Wright, Leeds, 1785’, folding table, 6 woodcuts in the text and 2 folding leaves all showing table settings (folding leaves are creased and two torn and repaired on verso), D2 with a closed tear, a little foxed and browned throughout, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, spine blind-tooled. Maclean, p.105; Oxford, p.78. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 | JP 40354] Book number: 24997 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| SCOTT (WILLIAM) EDITOR. The House Book; or family chronicle of useful knowledge, and cottage physician: combining medicine, cookery, diet, general economy, health, sea-bathing, gardening, manufactures, arts, &c., &c. with the various branches of domestic concerns; including upwa Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 1826. First Edition, xvi,614pp., engraved frontis., one hand-coloured botanical plate (often lacking), cont. calf, re-backed, orig. label laid-down. Cagle 984; Attar 270.1. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 | JP 40354] Book number: 24988 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| STAVELY (S.W.) The New Whole Art of Confectionary, Sugar Boiling, Iceing, Candying, Jelly Making, &c. Which will be Found Very Beneficial to Ladies, Confectioners, Housekeepers, &c. Printed by R. Wood, Blackburn. 1828. Eighth Edition, vi,[7]-60pp., modern wrappers. First published in 1823 by R. Wood, Blackburn. No copy of this edition located. GBP 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 161 US$ 240.85 | JP 21278] Book number: 23010 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| COLLINGWOOD (FRANCIS) & WOOLLAMS (JOHN) The Universal Cook, and City and Country Housekeeper. Containing all the various branches of cookery... Together with directions for baking bread, the management of poultry and dairy, and the kitchen and fruit garden; with a catalogue of the various artic Printed for Scatched and Letterman. 1806. Fourth Edition, revised and improved, [xxvi],383,[1]pp., engraved portrait frontispiece of the authors, 12 bills of fare engraved plates and a further plate depicting various cuts of meat, recent quarter sheep, marbled boards, morocco label to spine. Mclean, p.55; Bitting, p.167; Cagle 689; Oxford, p.120; Vicaire 375. GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 216.5 US$ 323.9 | JP 28615] Book number: 24999 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. |
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