Author: Helen Bullock
Title: The Williamsburg Art of Cookery or, Accomplished Gentlewoman&Apos;S Companion
Description: Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg Incorporated, 1947. Leather. A wonderful selection of more than five hundred recipes from Virginian cookery from times gone by. The fourth edition of this work, in full calf binding. This work by Helen Bullock was first published in 1938. This work includes many aspects of cookery in Virginia at the time, such as Bread, Pastry and Health Drinking. Bullock describes what is meant by Virginian hospitality, as well as detailing what Christmas is like in Virginia. With a preface by Helen Bullock, giving a history on the first American Book on the Art of Cookery, which was published in 1742 and included information on the handwritten books written by early housewives.With five illustrations, including the kitchen of The Governor's Palace at Williamsburg and The Blair Kitchen & Herb Garden. Collated, complete. In full calf binding. Externally smart with some slight rubbing to the extremities. Slight rubbing to spine label. The occasional mark to boards and to spine. Age toning and the occasional mark to endpapers. Slight spotting to fore edge. Internally firmly bound. Age toning to pages with the occasional handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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