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KERRIDGE. TOM - Signed by the Author.
THE HAND AND FLOWERS COOKBOOK.
H & F Photography by CHRISTIAN BARNETT. BLOOMSBURY ABSOLUTE. LONDON * OXFORD * NEW YORK * DELHI * SYDNEY.
FIRST EDITION. 2020. 270 x 210 x 35. Inside cover and fep. double-page b/w photograph of the kitchen during service. [1] Half-title with Tom Kerridge's signature. Verso Frontis piece of Tom cooking. Title page. Verso a b/w photograph of Tom and Liam Gallagher. (1) Dedication. Verso night-time photograph of The Hand & Flowers pub. 1p Contents. Verso b/w photograph of Tom. 9-21 Introduction. 22-28 A series of b/w images of twenty-four hours in the Kitchen. 29-410. 411-419 Index. 420-427 Thanks. 1 double page b/w photograph of the kitchen being washed-down after evening service. 430 -431 double page About the Author with a b/w photograph of Tom. Verso with Printer's details. 1fep. Back cover the same as the front with a double-page b/w photograph of the kitchen during service. The full white strong hard covers and spine with b/w text. Very good condition; as new.
- Tom Kerridge is an unusual chef. The introduction to this book alone, is in itself a fascinating read. He is a highly acclaimed cook trained in fine-dining kitchens. His love of pubs and the bonhomie of locals and neighbour's drinking, chatting and enjoying boozy banter and laughter, is the deep 'raison d'etre' behind the 'Hand and Flowers Pub' in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. In the introduction, Kerridge explains: "The pub dining scene broke the 'posh barrier' down [from high-end fine dining establishments] and made it possible for people to go out and eat simple food in lovely, un-stuffy environments". At the relatively young age of 31 years, he and his wife Beth, gained the tenancy and opened the pub in 2005. Tom's fusion of high-end simply presented, flavour-driven cooking, unexpectedly, ten months later in 2006, gained him his first Michelin Star. An extraordinary feat. Behind his ready ability to have a laugh, Kerridge's easy nature hides a shrewd and intelligent operator. He tells us that in the beginning before opening 'Hand and Flowers', he wrote to Michelin and enclosed his CV and also explaining the thoughts behind his pub opening. This cuts out immediately the wait that owners or chefs of most serious, ambitious eateries experience while they depend on slow 'word of mouth' to alert the Michelin inspectors. The engrossing Introduction gives a very well described idea of just how tough the building of the pub business was for Tom and Beth. He notes four qualities needed; Consistency, Drive, Character and Teamwork all backed up by sheer bloody-mindedness of never, ever accepting 'that will do'. This ethos is behind most successful ventures in any field of endeavour. Tom Kerridge changed the face of great cooking. He had the strength of conviction to bring it to the local pub. His ongoing focused efforts on the quality of his cooking are mirrored in Jay Fai's Thai Street food stall in Bangkok, where her famous Crab Omelette among other dishes has gained its first Michelin star. From a specific English pub to a specific Thai Street food stall, the tastes are completely different, but the desire to give of their best and to please their customers is the very same admirable intent. A very good cookbook.

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ref number: 11265

Kettilby. Mary - The first editon
A Collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery;
For the Use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses. By several hands. LONDON, Printed for RICHARD WILKIN, at the King's Head in St. Paul's Church-yard. MDCCXIV.
FIRST EDITION 1714. 8vo. Pp. Half title. Title page. 12. 1-218. [219-232] Full contemporary two-tone dark brown calf boards with nice polished patina. Sympathetically re-backed dark brown calf spine with raised bands and blind tooling. No labels. Pages evenly browned throughout, with some staining, but not affecting text. Overall a good copy of the very rare first.
- Mary Kettilby's first edition of 1714 has the first printed recipe for "modern" orange marmalade. Interestingly it was the Scots who moved marmalade to the breakfast table, complete with finely cut peels, or chips, to use the Scottish term. There it joined scones, sausages, game pies, trout, roast beef and sometimes a haunch of venison on the sideboard. The traditional Scottish breakfast was certainly not for the meek or those of delicate constitution or stomach. Not until well into the 19th century did the English follow the Scottish example and abandon the eating of marmalade in the evening (originally a post-dinner digestive rather than a jam). Mrs Kettilby's formula called for whole oranges, lemon juice and sugar. A contemporary recipe for home-made marmalade, that of Shaun Hill, owner of the Michelin two-star Merchant House in Shropshire, differs only slightly, using whole lemons along with the oranges and sugar. "Homemade marmalade", he says, "is superior to anything you can buy", and he made twenty cases of Seville oranges into marmalade each January when he cooked at Gidleigh Park in Chagford, Devon, a prominent country-house hotel. I should imagine there would not be a lot of difference in taste between Hill's recipe and that of Kettilby's due to the presumed consistent taste of oranges over the centuries.

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ref number: 10916

Kettilby. Mary - A first edition
A Collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery;
For the Use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses. By several hands. LONDON, Printed for RICHARD WILKIN, at the King's Head in St. Paul's Church-yard. MDCCXIV.
FIRST EDITION 1714. 8vo. Pp. Half title. Title page. 12. 1-218. [219-232] Full contemporary two-tone dark brown calf boards, lightly cracked with nice polished patina. Sympathetically re-backed dark brown calf spine with raised bands. No labels. Pages evenly browned throughout, with a light mark on the title page where the date was written in biro and the binder has erased the ink. Does not affect the text or border. A small strip 2 inches long by 1/8 inch wide missing from the very last page of index with very slight loss of text. The strip has been neatly repaired. Overall a nice copy of the very rare first.
- In the first half of the 15th century, the English made a spiced jelly called 'Chardequynce' from quinces (or quinces and pears) and honey (or sugar). Then in 1495, only three years after Columbus's first epic voyage to America, a Portuguese ship's captain named Farnando Yanes delivered to the port of London the first consignment of 'Marmelada' to arrive in Britain. The English initially ate it as a sweetmeat or as an after-dinner digestive. It was solid, not semi-liquid, and it came in a box, not a pot. But gradually cooks began to experiment with other fruits, first using apples or at least their inherent pectin to aid the jelling process with other fruits. At this time a modern type marmalade as we know it came about. The first printed recipe for orange marmalade was published in this book, Kettilby's first edition of 1714.

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ref number: 10917

Kettilby. Mary
A Collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery;
For the Use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses. By several hands. The FOURTH EDITION. To which is ADDED, A SECOND PART, Containing a great Number of Excellent Receipts, for Preserving and Conserving of Sweet-Meats, &c. LONDON: Printed for Mary Kettilby, and Sold by RICHARD WILKIN, at the King's-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard. M.DCC.XXVIII. SECOND TITLE: A COLLECTION OF RECEIPTS IN COOKERY, Physick and Surgery. PART 11. Containing Likewise, A great Number of Excellent Receipts, for Preserving and Conserving of Sweet-Meats, &c. By several Hands. The THIRD EDITION. Printed for RICHARD WILKIN, at the King's-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard. M.DCC.XXVIII.
8vo. 1fep. Title page. [1] (1)iv-viii Preface. (1)10-183. 7p Index. Second Title page. [1] (1)194-272. 4p Index. 2feps. Full original dark brown calf boards with a little wear but nice patina, with faded gilt line all around the edge. Spine re-laid in dark brown calf with raised bands and a bottle green label and gilt lettering. Internally slightly age-browned but otherwise a good copy. There are two manuscript inscriptions by Eliz. Thornby March 25th 1792.
- This fourth edition has a second part - third edition, but they are both dated 1728. Mary Kettilby's name appeared on the Title page for the first time in the second edition. The BL holds a 1734 edition that also states 'fourth edition' on the title page but which the BL calls the fifth. It also has a 7th edition of 1749 with a second part stating the 6th edition of 1746. The different dates to the second parts came about due to the fact the first edition of 1714 had no second part, they only started appearing on the second edition of 1719.

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ref number: 11080

Kidder. Edward - A rare beautiful miniature. Only 5 printed.
E. KIDDER'S RECEIPTS of Pastry and Cookery.
For the Use of his Scholars. Who teaches at his School in St Martins le Grand; On. Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, In the Afternoon, ALSO On Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, In the Afternoon, at his School next to Furnivals Inn in Holburn. Ladies may be taught at their own Houses.
A 1995 reprint in miniature of the 1st edition, 2nd issue of 1721 [see item 10966 below]. Text block - 2 1/4" x 3 3/4" Full brown speckled calf binding, with raised bands on spine with gilt lines and brown label with gilt lettering. Binding measuring 2 1/2" x 4" -- Pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Robert Shephard. Title page, 41 leaves with the engraved text on rectos only with versos blank. Last two leaves with 'The Order for Bills of Fare' and the Index. A beautiful and unique miniature edition.
- The portrait of Kidder is 'un-wigged', showing his natural hair. Later editions have Kidder with wig, and also have eight engraved plates. This edition does not have the plates but is complete. This is verified in the joint study published in PPC, Vols #'s 32 & 39 by Peter Targett in UK and Simon Varey in US. Kidder issued the recipes to his students one by one, in line with the daily and weekly lectures. The plates were issued later when he moved his schools to other locations. This is why the pagination of Kidder's books present so many variances. Hence Targett and Varey's welcome and helpful research. A beautiful and desirable item. One of a limited edition of 300. (Actually only 5 have been printed to date (19.3.23) with no plans to produce any more. Making this copy extremely rare.

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ref number: 10918

Kidder. Edward - A rare early edition
E. KIDDER'S RECEIPTS OF Pastry AND Cookery.
For the Use of his Scholars. Who teaches at his School in St Martins le Grand; On. Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, In the Afternoon, ALSO On Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, In the Afternoon, at his School next to Furnivals Inn in Holburn. Ladies may be taught at their own Houses.
8vo. The 1st edition, 2nd issue of 1721. 1fep. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Robert Shephard. Title page, 41 leaves with the cursive script engraved on rectos only with versos blank. (A costly and rarely used process). Last two leaves with 'The Order for Bills of Fare' and the Index. 1fep. Full brown speckled sheep binding, with raised bands on spine with gilt lines and green label with gilt lettering. Internally nice and clean, with a small light oily fingerprint on the bottom corner of the title page (not affecting the text).
- In reality this is not a printed book but rather a book of engravings. The beautifully laid out sheets of engraved scripted recipes, (with every verso blank) the elegant title page, the sculpted looking frontispiece, go towards making this one of the most handsome books, not only in cookery but any category. The portrait of Kidder is 'un-wigged', showing his natural hair. Other later editions have Kidder with wig and 8 engraved plates that were also added, (see item 11290 below). Also in later editions, pagination and recipe numbers vary greatly. This is all explained by the fact that Kidder's book only came about after his students were issued with the recipe sheets as their daily lessons progressed during their cookery course. It appears from the later editions of the book, Kidder's lessons were developed and added to, though the actual recipes themselves stayed the same. Another point of interest in the title pages of later editions, is the changing location addresses of Kidder's schools, presumably as his student numbers grew. Because of these haphazard factors, the work is bibliographically complex. Thankfully, it is greatly helped by the very good research of Peter Targett in the UK & Simon Varey in the US, whose joint study is published in Petit Propos Culinaires, Vols # 32 & 39. The study verifies this edition is complete as well as compelling evidence of all the other various editions and their cookery school locations. Collectors want the later copies with the eight engraved plates (3 folding) of patterns and ornamental designs for pies and pastries. This is understandable, but the very early editions like this one, without the plates but never the less complete, are rarer still.

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ref number: 10966

Kidder. Edward - Extremely rare.
A COOKERY MANUSCRIPT: 1718-9.
Cookery Recipes in a fine light cursive hand.
Octavo -180 x 119 mm. 1fep. 62. 3 pages of Courses. 1 page Index. 1fep. Full manuscript text in a light cursive script. Contemporary sheep boards with faint blind panel tooling and a nice patina. Re-backed spine with raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt, red calf label. A handsome item with Lord Westbury' s bookplate and the owner, Dorcas Thornycroft's signature on the front pastedown.
- One of only a handful of known manuscripts from the cookery school of Edward Kidder. Circa- 1665/7-1739. Perhaps the best-known cookery teacher active in early 18th-century London, this is a precursor to Kidder's first published collection, 'Receipts of Pastry and Cookery' circa.1720. (see items 10966 and 11290 in this collection). This manuscript contains most recipes that appeared in Kidder's published 'Receipts', as well as several unpublished. With the ownership inscription of a landed lady and enticing marks of use, this offers a rare window into Kidder's teaching practice. Kidder ran classes in pastry-making from as early as 1702 until at least 1734 at various premises, including Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Field. Kidder's school was one of the earliest of its kind in England and he professed to have taught some 6,000 ladies in his time. 'Receipts' was republished five times before 1740 and such was its popularity that multiple authors, including Mary Kettilby, Robert Smith, John Nott, Charles Carter, and Sarah Harrison, plagiarised it. A valuable record of over 150 interpretations of standard English dishes from this period, the manuscript follows the chapter divisions of 'Receipts', and includes several recipes or variants which do not appear in the published version. A few of these appeared in print later in 1723, plagiarised by Robert Smith. Manuscript recipe books compiled in an instructional context are very rarely seen in commerce: miscellaneous or personal compilations are more common. Six other manuscript versions of Kidder's published book of 'Receipts', with slight variations, are held institutionally; two of them bear manuscript dates (University of Leeds: 1702; UCLA: 1721-22). Multiple examples are uniformly bound in panelled calf as here, written following the same structure and paginated with an index. Some have printed title pages, listing different locations for Kidder's school and indicating that ladies were taught in their own houses. We have traced only one other example at auction, over 50 years ago. How these manuscripts were compiled is debated. Although one theory suggests that Kidder provided blank notebooks to his students, who then copied the recipes, the Manuscript Cookbook Survey posits that as "the hands of these books are neat and uniform, it seems unlikely that students copied Kidder's recipes piecemeal while attending Kidder's classes. It seems more plausible that the copying was done at a desk, with the printed book at hand, in a series of closely spaced sittings" (MCS). If Kidder's students were mostly household cooks sent by their employers, it is also unlikely that they "produced these books, for the hands. appear to be practiced and confident, those of well-educated persons. It is more plausible that the copiers were those 'ladies' whom Kidder 'taught in their own houses'" (MCS). As the handwriting does not always match the ownership inscriptions (as here), and as many examples are executed in a near-identical hand, some manuscripts were possibly professionally transcribed by copyists for distribution before Kidder gathered sufficient funds for a printed publication. This explanation particularly applies to the manuscripts, including the present example, with hand-written dates before 1720. The contents and date of the UCLA manuscript indicate that it was produced between the second and third printed edition (Varey, p. 48 PPC), showing that Kidder may have maintained a manuscript tradition of "textbooks" even after the printed publication. This manuscript belonged to Dorcas Thornycroft, circa 1690-1759, and has her ownership inscriptions and date of "1718-9, March ye (the) 23" on the front pastedown. Thornycroft was the owner of Sharsted Court, a manor house in Newnham, Kent, and heiress to Gideon Delaune, apothecary to Anne of Denmark, wife of King James I. She was unmarried and lived in the house with her sister until her death. Thornycroft seems to fall in the category of well-educated women who were taught by Kidder at home. The manuscript is in a flowing and easily readable hand, and the occasional stains, particularly in the section dedicated to fish, at pp. 46-51, suggest that she used it frequently. Some of the recipe titles find parallels in a 1699 manuscript cookery and medical recipe book which is held in the Wellcome Collection (MS.3107) and is inscribed "Edward and Katherine Kidder". The attribution is still unconfirmed but the similarities with this example are undeniable. In some cases, the recipe instructions are similar (such as for "Scotch Collops"), while in other cases there are methodological variations, such as the process for pickling cucumbers and mushrooms, or in the recipe for Gingerbread Cakes. Only one of the unpublished recipes in the present manuscript also appears in the Wellcome manuscript, that for green pea soup. Offering insights into the manuscript and publishing tradition of 18th-century cookery teaching, Provenance: Richard Bethell, 4th Baron Westbury (1914-1961), who owned an extensive collection of rare culinary works, with his bookplate on the front pastedown; his sale, Sotheby's, February 1965, lot 311. Westbury wrote the much-referenced Handlist of Italian Cookery Books (1963) and co-authored With Gusto and Relish (1957). ~"Some notes on Edward Kidder", PPC, vol. 65, 2000; Peter Targett, "Edward Kidder: his book and his schools", PPC, vol. 32, 1989; Simon Varey, "New light on Edward Kidder's Receipts", PPC, vol. 39, 1991.

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ref number: 11050

Kidder. Edward A later edition with the 8 plates.
E. KIDDER'S RECEIPTS OF PASTRY AND COOKERY.
For the Use of his Scholars. Who teaches at his School in Queen Street; near St. Thomas Apostles On. Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, In the Afternoon, ALSO On Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, In the Afternoon, at his School next to Furnivals Inn in Holburn. Ladies may be taught at their own Houses.
8vo. 190 x 110 mm 1 fep. [1] Frontispiece portrait by Robert Sheppard of the author in wig. Title page well laid out and enclosed within a lined border (Essentially an advertisement for Kidder's schools). 52 leaves, entirely engraved throughout on recto pages with versos blank. 8 engraved plates (three folding) of patterns and ornamental designs for pies and pastries. Original 1 fep. Contemporary paneled calf, covers blind tooled, with a margin surrounding the central panel painted and speckled. Nicely re-backed. Occasional light foxing or staining to text. Overall fine condition.
- Pastry Chef Edward Kidder - circa 1665/6-1739, opened his first pie shop in the Cheapside area of London. Soon he was known throughout the city for his delicious pastries, from rich lamb pies to savoury chicken to sweet custard tarts. He eventually opened a second location, and by all accounts was a highly successful businessman when he began to demonstrate his pie making techniques for wealthy ladies by opening a popular pastry school in London. His obituary in the London Magazine claiming that he "taught near 6000 Ladies the Art of Pastry." His school had several different locations in the first half of the 1700's, with the various addresses resulting in title-page variants on the different versions of his published book of Pastry and Cookery. Kidder's first edition was printed 1720/21, but there is manuscript evidence that the schools started at least as early as the 1700's. An engraved, printed title-page at the Brotherton Library of Leeds University of MS 75, is inscribed ‘London 1702’, and is followed by 71 folios of manuscript recipes similar to, if not verbatim copies of, the recipes which appear in the published Kidder texts. [Ref: The Recipes Project online] The title on this copy lists Kidder's address as "Queen Street, near St. Thomas Apostles," his location from around 1723 onwards. Although Kidder ran a pastry school, his recipes covered the whole range of soups, salads, meat, fish, poultry, sauces, and jellies, as well as pies and tarts. His recipes were repeatedly plagiarized throughout the eighteenth century, yet Kidder seems not to have plagiarized recipes himself. He probably taught his students to make established favourites, so even if his Receipts may not be especially inventive, it is a valuable record of 170 standard English dishes of the day, accompanied by attractive designs for pie shapes and decorations. The first recipe for puff pastry identical to the standard commercial product of today to appear in print is Kidder's. (ODNB). Kidder gave his students blank notebooks bound with a printed pre-title page from his cookbook. The students then copied his later cookbook text into these notebooks as their lessons progressed. There are five quite similar in content, hand written Kidder manuscripts by different ladies in five separate institutional collections. Three can be found online at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Chicago and Indiana's Lilly Library. An extremely scarce, handsome and an all-together intriguing book. ESTC T92424; Cagle 793; Axford, p. 124; Bitting, p. 259; Craig, p. 51; MacLean, p. 82; Oxford, p. 71.

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ref number: 11290

King. Dr William The very rare undated 1st Edition.
The Art of Cookery
In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. WITH SOME LETTERS TO Dr. LISTER, and Others: Occasion'd principally by the Title of a Book publish'd by the Doctor, being the works of Apicius Coelius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients. With an Extract of the greatest Curiosities contain'd in that Book. To which is added, HORACE'S Art of Poetry, in Latin. By the Author of the Journey to LONDON. Humbly inscrib'd to the Honourable BEEF STEAK CLUB. LONDON: Printed for BERNARD LINTOTT at the Cross-Keys between the two Temple Gates in Fleet Street. Undated.
FIRST AUTHORIZED EDITION. n/d [1708]. Octavo (7.5 by 5 inches). 2fep. Half Title. [1] Title Page. [1] 4pp The Publisher to the Reader. 1-160. 2fep. Bound in black half calf with cloth boards and calf corners. Spine with raised bands, gilt lines and gilt lettering. Internally clean however with some slight browning to Half title and title and last leaf. A nice copy of a scarce book.
- There is a little, amusing, early typewritten note tipped in that states; 'The poem is in Latin, with an English paraphrase, full of good sense. Our English restaurateurs might mark the following couplet, referring to the greatest deficiency of our restaurants: 'Tis the Desert that graces all the Feast, for an ill end disparages the rest.' William King (1663-1712), English poet and miscellaneous writer. He was educated at Westminster School under Dr Busby, and at Christ Church, Oxford. His first literary enterprise was a defense of Wycliffe, written in conjunction with Sir Edward Hannes (d. 1710) and entitled Reflections upon Mons. Vaiillas's History of Heresy.. . (1688). He became known as a humorous writer on the Tory and High Church side. His chief poems are: The Art of Cookery: in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With some Letters to Dr Lister and Others (1708), one of his most amusing works; The Art of Love; in imitation of Ovid ... (1709); "Mully of Mountoun," and a burlesque "Orpheus and Eurydice." A volume of Miscellanies in Prose and Verse appeared in 1705; his Remains.. . were edited by J. Brown in 1732; and in 1776 John Nichols produced an excellent edition of his Original Works with Historical Notes and Memoirs of the Author (see item #11281 below). Dr Johnson included him in his Lives of the Poets, and his works appear in subsequent collections.

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ref number: 10939

King. Dr William - 3 volumes edited by J. Nicols - The Antiquarian Society.
The Original Works.
ADVOCATE OF THE DOCTORS; JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY AND KEEPER OF THE RECORDS IN IRELAND, AND VICAR GENERAL TO THE LORD PRIMATE. NOW FIRST COLLECTED INTO THREE VOLUMES: WITH HISTORICAL NOTES, AND MEMOIRS OF THE AUTHOR. VOLUME THE FIRST. A 64 mm round illustration of Kings portrait. Under the portrait a verse; "His eye was keen, with sweetness aptly mix'd". (there are similar little verses under volumes second and third). LONDON, PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR; AND SOLD BY M. CONANT, SUCCESSOR TO MR. WHISTON, IN FLEET-STREET. MDCCLXXVI. The 2nd and 3rd editions have exactly the same title pages.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 1776. 190 x 130 mm. VOL.1: Marbled inside board and end paper. 2nd fep. Half Title. [1] Title page. [1] 1p Dedication by anonymous editor. [1] vii - viii Advertisement. ix - xxxii Memoirs of Dr King. 2p Reflections. 3 - 280. 281 - 282 Contents of vol.1. 1 fep. 2nd fep. marbled on verso and also back inside board. VOL.2: Marbled inside board and end paper. 2nd fep. Half Title. [1] Title page. [1] 2p The Transactioneer;. 3 - 6 Preface. 7 - 308. fep. 2nd fep. marbled on verso and also back inside board. VOL.3: Marbled inside board and end paper. 2nd fep. Half Title. [1] Title page. [1] 3 - 308. 309 -313 Index. 314 -315 Contents of Vol.111. On last verso Publishing advertisement. 1 fep. 2nd fep. marbled on verso and also back inside board. The three volumes beautifully bound in quarter bottle-green morocco with same for tips. the boards in marbled paper. All in very fine condition.
- Dr William King LL.D. was a great reader, academic and writer. His writing and poetry were scattered and had not been compiled. These three volumes are the first collected and original works in verse and prose brought together in 1776, and edited by John Nicols of the Antiquarian Society. Of interest to the collector of cookery books is the 'Art of Cookery' in the first volume. This had been printed separately in 1708. (see item 10939 on this site). Dr King is a humorous writer and this first edition of his collected works are very scarce. He was born in London, the son of Ezekiel King and related to the family of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. From Westminster School, he was a scholar at the age of 18 and was elected to Christ Church, Oxford in 1681. There he is said to have dedicated himself completely to his studies. In 1688 he graduated M.A. Taking up civil law, he became Doctor in 1692, and was admitted an advocate at Doctors' Commons. In 1702, having moved to Ireland, he was made Judge of the Admiralty, Commissioner of the Prizes, Keeper of the Records in Birmingham's Tower, and Vicar-General to Narcissus Marsh the primate. King found a friend in Anthony Upton, one of the High Court judges, who had a house called Mountown, near Dublin, where King frequently stayed. Both men were severely criticised by their political opponents for neglecting their official duties: it was said that they had no thought but to live out their days in rural retirement. In 1708, when Lord Wharton was sent to govern Ireland, King returned to London. In 1710 he became a supporter of the High Church party, on the side of Henry Sacheverell; In the autumn of 1712, King's health declined and he died on Christmas Day.

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ref number: 11281