Description

[004902] [Cookery]; A Gentlewoman. The Young Lady’s Companion in Cookery, and Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying &c. Containing the Newest and Best Receipts for Making All Sorts of Broths, Gravies, Soups, Ragoo’s, Hashes &c. Dressing Several Sorts of Meats, Collaring, Potting Etc. Etc. London: A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch; J. Hazard; W. Bickerton and C. Corbett; and R. Willock, 1734. First Edition. 12mo. Hardback. Good. [13], 2-204pp. Contemporary panelled calf boards, later rebacked and recornered, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel

Minor rubbing to extremities. Several pages, including the front free endpaper, title and advertisement leaf, as well as the final few pages, all with marginal repairs, very small worm track to inner gutters of signatures L-N, very occasionally just touching part of one letter, but with no loss of sense, text lightly browned, some foxing and browning, mainly to edges and margins, but never intolerable. Former owner’s inscription to ffep, ‘Mary Jenkin, Her Book and ???, 1738’

ESTC T63526, uncommon, only at BL and Wellcome in the UK, with five locations in the US

Bitting, pages 619-620; Maclean, page 154; Oxford, pages 64-65; Wellcome V: 515