The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy; Which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet published. by a Lady

Book Description

London: A. Millar,. 1767. 8vo. H Morocco and Marbled Boards. Very Nice. Very Good. London: for A. Millar and others, 1767. "New Edition". 8vo, recent brown morocco and marbled boards, spine banded, giltlettered and decorated. Quite a nice copy with minor aging, large bookplate on verso of front blank, small section missing from top edge of rear blank; index at rear dust-soiled. An early edition in which the name of the author does not appear except in facsimile on first page of text. Appendix of 150 new and useful receipts. The most celebrated English cook book. Bitting, pages 186- 189; Crahan 62; McLean, pages 59-60; Cagle 702 (this edition). McLean lists 36 editions, of which this is #16. Vicaire, page 414 and Oxford, page 77 - citing this edition, among others.

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