Author: MOXON (Elizabeth)
Title: English Housewifery, exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts, giving Directions in the most Parts of Cookery; and how to prepare various Sorts of Soups, Made-Dishes, Pastes, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, &c. With Cuts for orderly placing the Dishes and Courses;..... With an Appendix, containing upwards of seventy Receips [sic]......
Description: London: Printed for W. Osborne, T. Griffin, and H. Mosley, Gainsboro', 1789. Thirteenth Edition, corrected, 12mo, viii, [4], 5-203, [1], 33, [17] pp., 8 woodcuts (2 folding) in the text, folding leaf showing when fish are in season facing p.8 of the introduction, stain on top inner corner of title and the following 14 leaves gradually fading away, cont. calf, rubbed, joints cracked, upper cover nearly detached with some insect damage. The appendix has a separate title-page and pagination, and is entitled 'English Housewifery improved; or, a Supplement to Moxon's Cookery.... The Fifth Edition'. Cagle, 891; Oxford, p.78; Pennell, p.160.

Keywords: GASTRONOMY COOKERY