Royal-Cookery; or, the Complete Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in all the particular Branches of cookery, now in use in the Queen's Palaces of St. James, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor. With near Forty figures (curiously engraven on Copper) of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations Instalments; Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; Also receipts for making of Soupes, Jellies, Bisques, Ragoos, Pattys, Tansies, Forc'd-meats, Cakes, Puddings, &c. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne. To which are added, bills of fare for every Season of the year

London: Printed for Abel Roper and sold by John Morphew, near Stationer's Hall, 1710. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), [12], 127, [12], [12] pages. 35 plates, mostly folding. The final, unnumbered pages include bills of fare and bookseller's advertisements. All edges marbled. FIRST EDITION, published a year after the great chef's death. Maclean describes an additional printing of the first edition, printed for and sold by Maurice Atkins. "Lamb brought a touch of French snobbery to traditional English recipes for an increasingly prosperous group of wealthy merchants, urban professionals, and rural gentry. His recipes show a preference for French-style stewed and braised dishes over the boiled staples of seventeenth century England" (Anne Willan The Cook Book Library, page 197). As cook to five kings and queens of England, "few others could possibly afford to emulate the vast spreads of exotic and costly foods which Lamb so often called for in his book of Royal recipes." (Eric Quayle, Old Cook Books). ~ Internally sound, pages a bit darkened throughout. Some plates with browning to some creases or with an early and neat reinforcement at creases. In later, full brown calf, blind- and gilt-paneled and compartmented, with gilt-titled red morroco spine label. New endpapers. Binder's ticket of Period Binders of Bath, England pasted-in at rear. [OCLC records eighteen copies of this Roper printing and five of the Atkins printing; Bitting page 271 (calling for 34 plates only); Cagle 809; Maclean page 88; Pennell page 144; Simon 939 (the third edition of 1731; Vicaire, page 490; ESTC T91554].