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Carter. Susannah - A fantastic copy of a cookbook in its original state.
The Frugal Housewife
OR, Complete Womans Cook. WHEREIN THE ART OF DRESSING ALL SORTS OF VIANDS WITH CLEANLINESS, DECENCY AND ELEGANCE, IS EXPLAINED IN FIVE HUNDRED APPROVED RECEIPTS IN Gravies, Sauces, Roasting, Boiling, Frying, Broiling, Syllabubs, Creams, Flummery, Jellies, Giams, and Custards, TOGETHER WITH THE BEST METHODS OF Potting, Collaring, Preserving, Drying, Candying, Pickling, AND MAKING OF ENGLISH WINES; TO WHICH ARE ADDED TWELVE NEW PRINTS, Exibiting a proper Arangement of Dinners, Two Courses for every Month in the Year. WITH VARIOUS BILLS OF FARE. BY SUSANNAH CARTER, OF CLERKENWELL.LONDON: PRINTED FOR E. NEWBURY, THE CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD 1795.
The 3rd London edition. 12mo. Frontispiece (a Copper plate of Trussing) Title page. 6p The Index. 4p A Bill of Fare. 1p [1] a Copper plate of Trussing. [1] 2-180. 12p Woodcuts of Table Settings. Original publishers blue newspaper binding. Pages pristine and most uncut. Edges untrimmed, as issued. Housed in a handsome modern half black leather clam-shell box with black cloth boards. Spine with raised bands, gilt lines and two bottle green labels with gilt lettering. A unique and rare copy.
- The first question that comes to mind when viewing this little book is, where has it been kept for over 200 years; to still be in this condition is wonderful. The original newspaper cover is quite delicate and a little faded and needs to be handled with care; hence the need to house it in the special clamshell box to protect it for the next 200 years. After buying a book, leather bindings had to be ordered from a binder and paid for separately. Not surprisingly publisher's and binder's establishments were often found in close proximity to each other. The 1st edition of Carter's cookery book was published, London, circa.1765. From the PRB&M Co. we learn "Although in its initial U.S. appearances, the Frugal Housewife was strictly oriented towards British cuisine and ingredients, it was later adapted and expanded for American housewives, and portions of the original publication directly formed the basis for the first American-authored cookbook: Amelia Simmons's American Cookery". The first American edition of The Frugal Housewife, printed without a date, was advertised by Edes & Gill in the Boston Gazette as “this day Published” on 2 March 1772. As an interesting side-note, Edes & Gill are best remembered as the most important printers in Boston during the American Revolution. In 1773, one year after publishing Carter's cookbook, they and their newspaper, the Boston Gazette, played a crucial role in sparking the Boston Tea Party.

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ref number: 10975

Carter. Charles Carter's monumental work.
The Complete Practical COOK
Or, A NEW SYSTEM Of the Whole Art and Mystery of COOKERY. Being a Select Collection od Above Five Hundred RECIPES for Dressing, after the most Curious and Elegant Manner (as well FOREIGN as ENGLISH) all Kinds of Flesh, Fish, fowl, &c. [a single thin line] FITTED FOR ALL OCASIONS: But more especially for the most Grand and Sumptuous Entertainments. [a single thin line] [a single thin line] Adorned with Sixty curious Copper Plates; Exhibiting the full Seasons of the Year, and Tables proper for Every Month; As also Variety of large Ovals and Rounds, and Ambogues and Square Tables for Coronation-Feasts, Instalments, &c. [a single thin line] The Whole intirely [sic] New; And none of the RECIPES ever published in any Treatise of this Kind. . [a single thin line] Approved by divers of the Prime Nobility; And by several Masters of the Art and Mystery of Cookery. [a single thin line] By CHARLES CARTER, Lately cook to his Grace the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Pontefract, the Lord Cornwallis, &c. . [a single thin line] LONDON: Printed for W. Meadows, in Cornhill; C. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and R. Hett, in the Poultry. M.DCC.XXX.
FIRST AND SOLE EDITION. 4to. 255 x 202 mm.2 feps. Title page, printed in red and black. [1] Dedication page. [1] 10 pages To the Reader. [1] (1)2-208. 209 - 212 Terms of Art. (1)214 - 224 The Contents. 60 engraved plates, 3 folding. Spectacular fold-out contains dishes for King George II Coronation dinner. Some foxing to edges, but otherwise nice and clean. The edges of the text block nicely speckled. Full tan calf with spine and boards tooled in gilt. Spine with raised bands and red morocco label in gilt. Rebound by Chris Lewis of Bath, formerly a binder at Bayntun-Riviere. From the estate of Dan Samuel, 4th Viscount Samuel (1925-2014), grandson of Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine (1920-1925). A very good copy.
- Sam Bilton wrote online, the following article about Charles Carter and his book; The Complete Practical Cook. Her acute observations are worth re-printing here in their entirety: " Long before chefs began coveting stars, their reputations were built on the social standing of their patron. The bigger the ‘nob’ you worked for, the more prestige your position as a chef held in the 18th century. Charles Carter’s patrons included the Duke of Argyll, General Wood and several lords. He had the advantage of having worked in several European countries where he had been exposed to a wider variety of flavours (like garlic) than many of his English counterparts. He was very proud of his achievements and doesn’t shy away from telling the reader so in the introduction. Despite his lack of modesty, a lot of what Carter says still holds true today. He believes cookery is an art and that good cooks should be rewarded for their skill. He is highly critical of unscrupulous cooks who pass off the work of others as their own. He even starts the book by extolling the virtues of a good stock, a maxim which is as true now as it was in the 18th century. The recipes are very much of their time, with many meat-based dishes beloved by his wealthy benefactors. Nose to tail eating was definitely the order of the day. The recipe for 'Olio Podred'a (a type of Spanish stew) contains 11 breeds of bird including pheasants, ducks and larks plus beef, pork, veal and mutton, not to mention hogs ears, trotters, sausages and ham. The dish is served with a ragout of pallets, sweetbreads, lamb stones, cockscombs and a hefty dose of truffles. You get the meat sweats just by reading the recipe. A few recipes, like 'To Pot Otter' ', Badger or Young Bea'r, are decidedly odd and are likely to offend some 21st century sensibilities. However, others like 'Buttered Crab' ' Eggs à la Switz' (a spiced-up version of eggs florentine), 'Pike Babacu’d' or 'Beef la Tremblour' (slow cooked rump or sirloin, till it is so tender that it will tremble or shake like a quaking pudding) sound reassuringly familiar once you get past the archaic language. Some like 'Tamarind Tort' or 'Caraway Cakes' are crying out to be rediscovered by a modern audience. Unlike modern cookery books there is no strict division between savoury and sweet dishes reflecting the way meals were served 'à la francaise'. Carter even provides a large number of diagrams at the back of the book with suggestions for different dinners according to the season or occasion. (One of the folding plates measures a whopping 500mm long. See image #6 below) Clearly for the 21st century cook, this is far from a practical book. The recipes are designed to cater for large households so inevitably require scaling down. Some of the ingredients he uses, like 'eringo roots' (candied sea holly roots) or 'ambergris' (whale vomit) are difficult to come by or are best avoided. Carter claims this book will make cooks more inventive and a certain degree of ingenuity is required to make these recipes work today. If you have any interest in England’s culinary heritage it’s worth persevering with The Complete Practical Cook if for no other reason than to prevent it from being forgotten". [From the 'Cookbook Review' blog online]. Oxford p.61. Cagle p.592. Bitting p.77. Axford p.75. MacLean p.23.

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ref number: 10981

Carter. Charles - First edition of Carter’s second work.
The Compleat City and Country Cook: or Accomplish’d Housewife.
Containing, Several Hundred of the most approv’d Receipts in Cookery, Confectionary, Cordials, Cosmeticks, Jellies, Pastry, Pickles, Preserving, Syrups, English Wines &c. Illustrated with Forty-nine large Copper Plates, directing the regular placing the various Dishes on the Table, from one to four or five Courses: Also, Bills of Fare according to the several Seasons for every Month of the Year. Likewise, The Horse-shoe Table for the Ladies at the late In-stalment at Windsor, the Lord Mayor's Table, and other Hall Dinners in the City of London; with a Fish Table. &c. By Charles Carter, Lately Cook to his Garce the Duke of Argyle, The Earl of Pontefract, the Lord Cornwallis, &c. To which is added by way of Appendix, Near Two Hundred of the most approv'd Receipts in Physick and Surgery for the Cure of the most common Diseases incedent to Families: THE COLLECTION OF A NOBLE LADY DECEASED. A work design'd for the Good, and absulutely Necessary for all Families. LONDON: Printed for A.Bettesworth and C.Hitch; and C.Davis in Pater-noster Row: T.Green at Charing-Cross; and S.Austen in St. Paul's Church-Yard. M.DCC.XXXII.
FIRST EDITION. 1fep.[1] Title Page.[1] iii-viii Preface. 1-144. 145-280 Appendix. [1] 45 Engravings from copper plates of table settings with each page blank on the reverse side. 4 Further folding plates of table settings. 20 pages of Advertisements. 1fep. Small worm holes at the top of the advertisements and the fep. not affecting text. The original full dark brown calf expertly re-laid. With double gilt lines to the borders, raised bands and gilt lines on spine with later black label with gilt lettering. The cover with a nice patina. The text is clean and the pages have pleasing wide margins. The Title page and plates very slightly age browned but overall a very nice copy of a very scarce item.
- Carter’s second work, which has about 144 pages of his own recipes, with the rest being an appendix of recipes of interest to the “Mistress of a House or Housekeeper”, for preserves, pickles, drinks, cosmetics, and remedies. The medical part of two hundred cures and treatments is described on the title page as being taken from “The collection of a noble lady deceased”, thus presumably being from a household manuscript and secrets book. Oxford describes these recipes as “a horrid mixture of filth and superstition”. Besides the Dukes and Earls mentioned on the Title page, Carter was Cook to other nobles and military men including Lord Whitworth in “several embassies to Berlin, the Hague &c”, the House of Hanover and General Wade in Spain and Portugal in 1710 during the War of Spanish Succession. The last folded plate of the famous Horse-shoe shaped table is much copied in other books and is often used to highlight auction catalogues.

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ref number: 11047

Carving Handbook. - A rare miniature.
The Handbook of Carving
WITH Hints for the Dinner-Table. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIVE FIGURES. London: GEORGE ROUTELEDGE AND SONS, The Broadway, Ludgate. New York: 416 Broome Street.
95x68mm (3-3/4" x 2-1/2") 1fep. Half-Title. [1] (1) Coloured Frontispiece. Coloured extra Title page. [1] Title Page. [1] 1p Reface. [1] (1)p8 Contents. (1)10-82. [2] 12p Advertisements of Routeledge books (including one page advertising Soyer's "Cookery for the People" and Francatelli's "A Plain Cookery for the Working Classes"). 1fep. Has numerous engraved drawings in the text. With the original crimson cloth binding and a blind tooled line around the edges of boards, and a fresh gilt illustration on the front cover. All edges in gold. Housed in a handsome clamshell box in dark brown half calf and brown cloth boards, lined with felt cloth. With raised bands, gilt lines and a bottle green morocco label with gilt writing.
- The frontis and extra title page are very bright and colourful, The overall condition of this lovely little book is excellent, thus the reason for the clam-shell box. The BL holds one copy and dates it circa 1866. Perhaps due in part to the smallness and relative delicacy of this little tome they are very rare. They would not have been securely housed on a book-shelf with other books but rather odd places like drawers or forgotten paper piles to be discarded unintentionally, or treated more roughly than a larger book. Where ever this copy has been it was not used nor disturbed very much. A little gem.

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ref number: 11061

CASSELL'S. 4 Volumes in mint condition: As new.
HOUSEHOLD GUIDE.
EVERY DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL LIFE: BEING A Complete Encyclopaedia OF DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL ECONOMY. (single thin line) NEW AND REVISED EDITION. (single thin line) Vol 1. CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED: LONDON. PARIS & MELBOURNE. (single thin line) (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
C irca 1875. 4 x 4to. 260 x 200 mm. Every volume same title page. VOL.1. 1fep. [1] A coloured chromolithograph plate as frontis. Title page. [1] 2p Index. (1)2 - 380. 1fep. VOL.2. 1fep. [1] A coloured chromolithograph plate as frontis. Title page. [1] 2p Index. (1)2 - 380. 1fep. VOL.3 1fep. [1] A coloured chromolithograph plate as frontis. Title page. [1] 2p Index. (1)2 - 364. 1fep. VOL.4 1fep. [1] A coloured chromolithograph plate as frontis. Title page. [1] 2p Index. (1)2 - 374. 375 - 380 Useful Tables. (1)i - xxviii General Index. 1fep. A books hardcovered bound in brown cloth with ornate embossed tooling and design in blue and gilt on front covers and spines. The 4 volumes are numbered on the spines. A fantastic set.
- These fine Cassell company produced books are very hard to get any precise bibliographical information about. What is clear, is the many guides to household management that were published during the Victorian period 'Cassell's Household Guide' is both typical of this genre and one of the most comprehensive and best. Each of the four volumes contains a series of essays on various topics, tasks and areas of concern and help for the household. Not only for the wife but also the husband. The general index at the end of the fourth volume covers all the other three volumes. Detailed articles vary in length but the breadth of information brought to each subject is amazing, A comprehensive look at Victorian middle-class life, from making aquariums to pie recipes, as well as all aspects of food preparation. The guide is well organised across the four volumes. Containing eight coloured plates and accompanied by monochrome vignette illustrations throughout, providing any homeowner with all the knowledge they might want or need. When you see the clamour for copies of Mrs Beeton's Household Management, then compare this copy of Cassell's production, one can only comprehend this extremely fine set is very underrated.

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ref number: 11279

Cassells - Extremely rare 20 original parts.
New Dictionary of Cookery
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND TWENTY PLATES IN COLOURS CONTAINING ABOUT TEN THOUSAND RECIPES CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MCMIV
20 booklets each one 4to - 244x170mm x 6mm thick. The booklets are not separately paginated but continuously numbered from the first to last one. Booklet twenty finishes on page 1165 and an index. Each booklet though has a lovely unique coloured frontispiece. Many fine illustrations in the text. All the booklets, text and light grey-blue covers in fine condition, except for the covers on booklet one and twenty are a little rubbed. They are all housed in a large bottle green clamshell box with cloth boards, half bottle green morocco spine with raised bands and two red labels and fine gilt tooling. A very fine rare set.
- The conclusion of a lot of research into relatively scarce, varied and confusing details about ‘Cassells Dictionary of Cookery’ is hard to condense. It appears that the first edition in book form is un-dated and printed - 1875-76. There are four copies in British holdings; BL. Nat. Trust. Nat Lib. of Wales & Oxford. The next edition, -1877, has 10 coloured plates including a frontis, and many illustrations. An 1878-80 single volume in the BL appears to be a version issued in thirteen parts since the original blue paper binding of Part 1, price 6d, is bound in before the frontispiece. Each part cost 6d except the thirteenth, which sold for 8d. An 1888 OB rebound volume was originally issued in thirteen parts bound in red paper. An LB copy printed in 1896 at London, Paris and Melbourne by Cassell and Co Ltd is the version issued in ten parts costing 6d each, originally bound in blue paper then inexplicably rebound into one volume by the library. An OB volume was originally issued in ten parts costing 6d each and bound in blue paper. Quite why the libraries feel it is right to rebind into one volume these sets of original monthly booklets is unbelievable and unforgivable. The next significant issue in one volume was printed in 1904 in London, Paris, New York and Melbourne by Cassell and Co Ltd. It was now named ‘Cassells New Dictionary of Cooking’’ It appears it was issued as a single volume , This single volume was also issued in twenty fortnightly parts. (Inside booklet one of this set is a yellow form that people can fill out to order the booklets) There is no doubt that this set of booklets seen here are exceedingly rare, possibly as rare as Mrs Beeton's twenty four original parts of "Household Management'. The reason for the rarity is now obvious. After doing this research on Cassells Dictionary, the sets of the original booklets, whether ten, thirteen or twenty have mostly been rebound into single volumes by many libraries. Whereas it may be explained that rebinding the booklets into one volume helped to preserve them from the multiple handling of numerous readers, conversely, it loses forever the uniqueness of the original separately bound parts, all with their own covers. Although ‘Cassells Dictionary of Cookery’ books may not be fervently collected which may be explained by the fact they are published by a company rather than an individual. There are many booklets produced with great charm by companies promoting single products. Beautiful booklets of that ilk that come to mind are those promoted by Elizabeth David for various wine companies and Le Crueset. Another is Liebig Company's Cookery book. Cassell's booklets on Cookery are not promoting a product but rather published and sold by a company. They have been produced with great care and thought and are a large undertaking. As explained in the preface of the first booklet, it was set out in alphabetical dictionary format to enable the user to find a dish easily. Many of the recipes were made and tested by Mr V. Benoist of 30 Picadilly London. This is the same V. Benoist who set up on 26 Feb 1910 using the same name, the famous wholesale purveyor of food, beverages and tobacco. An exciting find and in some ways nicer than Beeton's booklets. Not found in any of the bibliographies nor auction records.

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ref number: 11216

CERVIO. VINCENZO - The original rare treatise on carving.
IL TRINCIANTE.
D M. VINCENZO CERVIO, AMPLIATO, ET RIDOTTO A PERFETTIONE DAL CAVALLIER REALE FVSORITTO NARNI, Trinciante dell’Illust [with small MO above]. & Reur [with small MO above]. Signor Cardinal Farnese CO’ PRIVILEGII. [Illustrated Printer woodcut device in homage to Sybille. Surrounded on 3 sides by--] QVAL PIV FERMO – E IL MIO FOGLIO – EL MIO PRESAGIO. IN VENETIA Appresso gli Heredi di Francesco Tramezini. M D LXXXI.
FIRST EDITION 1581. 3 feps. Title page very slightly age browned with 3 small ink spots not detracting. [1] 1p ALL ILLVSTRISS. 2p Ai Lettori. 1p TAVOLI. 1-44[1] 3 feps. 3 plates of carving knifes & forks, fowls ready for carving with parts labeled, and a three times folded long plate of knifes and forks. The main text in italic type. Bound in quarter dark brown calf with marbled boards and red morocco and gilt label. The whole text-block very clean. Overall in fine condition.
- Vincenzo Cervio (ca. 1510-1580) was for most of his life an officer in the household of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, and was also a famous carver. Il Trinciante, (translated; The Carver), is his posthumous book that was edited by Cavalier Reale and includes a separate section by Reale. It is stated online the book is the forerunner to all other books and manuals on carving. This is not true. It is preceded by the first treatise on the Italian art of carving by Giovanni Francesco Colle and his work; Refugio del Povero Gentilhuomo. Colle was the trinciante to the Court of Ferrara. His treatise was published in 1520 and dedicated to Duke Alfonso d’Este. Cervio's work tho' is said to be superior to all the essays of his predecessors including Domenico Romo, who wrote The Singolare Doctrine, pub: Venice 1560. This rare first edition of Cervio's Il Trinciante of 1581 is published in the original Italian, and details the carving and serving of meat, fish, fruit, shellfish and fowl. It includes no fewer than 74 chapters and promotes the Italian method of carving, where one holds the food up in the air with a fork and carves it in this posture, transforming the operation into a spectacular performance for the diners to admire. The treatise, moreover, provides "much information about the foods eaten at an Italian court of that period" (Davidson). The chapter on household matters concludes with a short piece on the carving tools designed by Fusoritto da Narni, author of at least a portion of the work. These are depicted in detail on the folding plate. Fusoritto da Narni was, in this period, trinciante to Cardinal Alessandro Mont’al- to whose uncle Felice Peretti (Sixtus V) was pope from 1585-90. It is probable that the elaborate banquets described are ones in which Narni officiated. A 2nd edition was printed in Rome in 1593 by Giulio Burchioni and in the same year the 2nd was reprinted again in Venice by Giovanni Varisco. It was also published in early seventeenth century and was often bound together with later editions of Bartolomeo Scappi’s ‘Opera’. This book is a glimpse of the elite of Italian Renaissance society and the skills of the carver as one of the important functions of their dinners and banquets. BMC STC Italian, p 166. USTC 821713 - 7 copies. Vicaire, col. 159; Westbury, pp. 45-46; 1 x 1581 & 2 x 1593. The 1st edition not in Bitting. Horn-Arndt; cf. Davidson, The Oxford companion to food, p. 156. Cagle 2 copies 1581 & 1593. Mags Cat.# 645 one copy of 1591. Mosimann has a 1st plus 2 others.

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ref number: 11221

Cheyne. George M.D. F.R.S.
AN ESSAY OF HEALTH AND LONG LIFE.
By George Cheyne, M.D. F.R.S. (a single line) The Second Edition. (a single line) Greek lettering – Hippoc. An Imbecillis (quo in Numero magna Pars Urbanorum, omnesque pene Cupidi Li-terarum sunt) Observatio major neces-saria est: ut quod vel corporis, vel Loci, vel Studii Ratio detrahit, Cu-ra sestituat. Celf. (a single line) LONDON. Printed for George Strahan, at the Golden Ball over-against the Rpyal Exchange in Cornhill’ and J.Leake, Bookseller at Bath. 1724. (the page with a two line border)
8vo. 1fep. Title Page. [1] Dedication to Sir Joseph Jekyll. [1] i-xx Preface. c-e4 Contents. e5-e6 In Clarissimi Medici with printers device. 1p Advertisements. (1)2-232. Inside the text as new. Full original calf binding. Dark and light brown panelling on boards with blind tooling, and raised bands on spine. A very good copy in fine original state.
- A very interesting 18th century treatise on health, well written by an eminent Scottish pioneering physician; George Cheyne M.D. R.C. E.d. R.S.S. (1671–1743) who regulated his own bad health by embracing vegetarianism after becoming obese with rich food and drink. He was a popular doctor and published a number of treatises on health and diet. There are chapters on the use and effects of meat, fish, vegetables wine etc. He also published other works on fevers, nervous disorders, and hygiene. In 1740, he penned his last work, a study of nutrition and natural living, 'The Natural Method of Cureing [sic] the Diseases of the Body, and the Disorders of the Mind'. Bitting p86 for a copy in French. Not in any other bibliographies. Another second edition, but confusingly dated 1725, was sold at the auction of the Marcus Crahan collection in New York, 1984.

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ref number: 11228

Child. Lydia Maria
The Frugal Housewife.
DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT ASHAMED OF ECONOMY.. BY MRS CHILD, AUTHOR OF THE "MOTHER'S BOOK" THE "LITTLE GIRL'S BOOK" ETC. A fat kitchen maketh a lean will - Franklin. "Economy is a poor man's revenue; extravagance a rich amn's ruin." Ninth Edition. CORRECTED AND ARRANGED BY THE AUTHOR. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, HINTS TO PERSONS OF MODERATE FORTUNE. SOME VALUABLE RECEIPTS. ETC. ETC. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T.T. AND J. TEGG, CHEAPSIDE; N. HAILES, PICADILLY; BOWDREY AND KERBY, OXFORD STREET; ALSO R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW. 1832.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 12vo. Yellow paste-downs and end-papers at each end. 1fep. [1] Engraved frontispiece. Title page. [1] 1-172. 173-176 Index. 6 pages of very neat manuscript writing on the feps and paste-down. Original maroon calf boards with bright original gilt lettering "Mrs Child's Frugal Housewife 2s/6d." Sympathetically relaid smooth spine. Internally very clean. An excellent copy.
- This is a lovely and interesting book. The first edition (the Frugal Housewife) was published in America. 1929. Bitting informs us the title was deposited in the District Clerk's Office by David L. Child, the 12th day of November, 1829. Other editions cited by Lincoln are; the 2nd 1830; 4th, 5th, 6th,7th, all 1831; 8th, 1832. Because this edition, the 9th, was published in England, further American editions had the title changed to "The American Frugal Housewife" This new title reached thirty two editions by 1850. Oxford only cites the 15th English edition of 1835. Lownestien; p31, confusingly states that the name of the American edition was changed in 1832 because there was an "English book of the same name" She seems unaware that both the new 'American Frugal Housewife' and the English 'Frugal Housewife' were one and the same, albeit, published in two different countries. The confusion is even more widespread. Michigan State University Libraries have an essay on the 1830 American edition in their 'Historic American Cookbook Project'--'Feeding America' in their Digital Collections that states; "The Frugal Housewife was first published in Boston in 1829 and was reprinted at least four times in the next two years. By the eighth edition of 1832, the name had been changed to The American Frugal Housewife to differentiate it from the English work of Susannah Carter." Yes, Carter did publish a cookery book called 'The Frugal Housewife' but it is a totally different book that was first published sixty four years previously in 1765. Finally, after studying this copy being offered here, against the text of the facsimile copy of The American Frugal Housewife, twenty-ninth edition of 1844, with the introduction by Jan Longone, there is no doubt they are both different editions of the same book. Quite how an American cookery book, barely three years into publication, came to be printed in England, is a mystery on which this compiler would appreciate some clarity. Lowenstien p2, p25, p31.

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ref number: 10907

Chomell. Noel
Dictionaire Oeconomique
2 VOLUMES: Dictionaire Oeconomique: or, The Family Dictionary. CONTAINING The most experienced Methods of improving Estates and of preserving Health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life.-- The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering all Sorts of Do-mestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, silkworms, &c.-- The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines for taking all Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts; the Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses; the Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their Specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues.--- The best and cheapest Ways of Providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery.--- Means of Making the most Advantage of the Manufacturers of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c.--- The Methods to take or destroy Vermin and other Animals, injurious to Garden-ing, Husbandry, and all rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Graden and other Country Tools and Utensils.--- An account of the several Weights, Mearures, &c. of Metals and mi-nerals, with their Preparations and Uses.--- All Sorts of Rural Sports and Exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Terms of Art axplained, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c.--- The whole illustrated throughout with very Variety of Figures, for the rea-dier understanding and practising of things to which they belong. Done into English form the Second Edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M. Chomell: with considerable CONSIDERATIONS and IMPROVEMENTS. Revised and Recommended by Mr, R, Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S. In Two Volumes. VOL.1. From A-to-H. VOL.11. From H-to-Z. LONDON: Printed for D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St. Paul's Church-Yard. M.DCC.XXV.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 1725. Both Volumes - Folio. 32.2cm x 20cm. Volume 1. 1fep. Title page in red and black text. [1] 2pp Dedication to Theodore Jacobson, Esq; (with nice engraved devices) 4pp Preface. B-I. (no page numbers) 2fep. Original thick dark brown calf boards, re-backed in dark brown calf with raised bands and dark green calf label with gilt writing. Very sturdy. Internally clean and tight. Volume 2. 1fep. Aaaa-Z. (no page numbers) 1pp List of Books printed. 1fep. Original thick dark brown calf boards, re-backed in dark brown calf with raised bands and dark green calf label with gilt writing. Very sturdy. Internally clean and tight. A very nice copy of the rare first English edition.
- A major French-language compendium of eighteenth century information on domestic management that was widely read in Europe and later had important influence on the development of encyclopedic resources in early nineteenth century Japan. The dictionary, compiled by a French priest, ran to several editions in continental Europe but only three editions in English; this London copy and two later Dublin editions. Some nice woodcuts throughout the text expand the topics covered; these include agriculture, beekeeping, bird-traps, garden design, heraldic devices etc. Other sections include Baking, Bread-making, Sweet-making and Dessert with three woodcuts showing how to lay oval and round dessert tables plus a table ready-laid. This edition was not only translated from the work by M. Chomell but also Anglicised by Mr Bradley. A fascinating glimpse of some of the skills-for-living used in the first half of the eighteenth century.

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