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Point Fernand - With 2 menus; one is Fernand's & one is Mme Point's.
Ma Gastronomie
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Translated and Adapted by FRANK KULLA and PATRICIA SHANNON KULLA Introduction by JOSEPH WECHSBERG Special Drawings by ANDRE DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC Lyceum Books WILTON, CONNECTICUT
Samll Folio. 280x220mm. 1fep. Title Page. [1] 1p Table of Contents. [1] 5-9 Introduction. [1] Half Title. On verso, a copty of a painting of Point. 13-191. [1] 1fep. Hardcover binding in mustard coloured cloth with brown lettering on the spine. Bright yellow mylar DJ. With many full page photographs, illustartions and drawings. Also with two handwritten undated menus in the hand of Madame Point. One menu is from the time of Fernand and the other is from the time of Madame Point, and signed by her sometime after Fernand's death. As new, inside and out. A scarce item.
- The self-taught American chef, Charlie Trotter, of the famed 'Charlie Trotter Restaurant' in Chicago, was recently quoted --- "The figure who most impressed me during my culinary development was Fernand Point. I was impressed most by Point's sense of generosity...and to this day it is something which resonates within me". Because of this declaration which was repeated publicly many times, first English editions of Point's 'Ma Gastronomie' have become extremely scarce, and waiting lists are the norm for later editions. La Pyramide in Vienne, (approx. 18 miles south of Lyon) the famous restaurant run by Fernand Point and his wife was originally purchased by Fernand’s father Auguste, in Sept. 1923. Previously the restaurant was known as Restaurant Guleu in Vienne. It had been successfully founded and run for 20 years by Leon Guleu. Fernand married Marie-Louise in 1930. She supervised the dining room at La Pyramide, kept the books, paid the bills, and oversaw many daily details. The menus were always hand written daily by Mme. Point, according to what produce was the best and available. Fernand would place his orders by phone with suppliers in Les Halles – Paris. The orders would be shipped the same day by train from Paris to Vienne. Fernand Point started his career by being apprenticed at Foyot’s and the Hotel Bristol in Paris. He also apprenticed at the Royal Hotel – Evian alongside Georges Bocuse, father of Paul Bocuse. Ironically, Paul Bocuse later trained for five years at La Pyramide under Fernand. Point kept and wrote all his kitchen notes and thoughts on cream-coloured notebooks. The notebooks became known as “Ma Cuisine” One of his favourite sayings was “I’m not hard to please. I’m content with the very best.” After Point's death, La Pyramide’s kitchens were run very ably by his assistant & brilliant cuisinier, Paul Mercier. Although Elizabeth David famously stated "this is an awful book" it is nevertheless an important part of any serious cookery book collection. What ever E. David's opinions may be, it is a much sought after book, not least, by professional chefs. This item is made all the more desirable with the inclusion of two 'La Pyramide' menus, especially the one with the signed dedication by Mme Point.

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Modern category

ref number: 11071

Point. Fernand
Ma Gastronomie
neuf eaux-fortes de Dunoyer de Segonzac Bibliotheque culinaire Flammarion
4to. 267x187mm. 1fep. Half title. [1] Title page. [1] 5-163. [1] 165-171 Table des Matieres. [1] 1p Advertisements. [1] 1fep. Hardcover in red and dark brown. With many full page illustrations and drawings. As new inside and out.
- Fernand Point (1897 – 1955) is considered to be the father of modern French cuisine. He received his training with Foyot in Paris. Point’s ‘Ma Gastronomie’ has taken its place among the true classics of French gastronomy alongside the works of Careme and Escoffier. This essential volume is as celebrated for Point’s wise, witty and provocative views on food as for his remarkable, inventive recipes compiled from his written notes. From his restaurant 'La Pyramide' in Vienne, a town half an hour to the south of Lyon, he gained three Michelin stars and trained a generation of French master chefs; Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Louis Outhier, Georges Perrier and Jean and Pierre - the Brothers Troisgros. The restaurant was founded shortly after World War I. From its kitchen came the modern lightly thickened sauces, baby vegetables and other aspects of nouvelle cuisine. During the regime of Vichy France, Point served refugees fleeing the German invasion. When German officers began patronizing his establishment, he stopped serving dinner. When they demanded tables for lunch, he closed his restaurant altogether. While Fernand worked in the kitchens, his wife welcomed their guests. She continued owning the restaurant after her husband's death. Two of his more famous quotes were "Beurre beurre, donnez-moi du beurre, toujours du beurre" . Another of his favourite sayings was “I’m not hard to please. I’m content with the very best.”

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Modern category

ref number: 11072

Eaton. Mrs. Mary
THE COOK AND HOUSEKEEPER'S
COMPLETE AND UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY; INCLUDING A SYSTEM OF MODERN COOKERY, IN ALL ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES, ADAPTED TO THE USE OF PRIVATE FAMILIES: ALSO A VARIETY OF ORIGINAL AND VALUABLE INFORMATION, RELATIVE TO BAKING, BREWING, CARVING,COLLARING, CURING, ECONOMY OF BEES, ----- (ECONOMY) OF A DAIRY, ECONOMY OF POULTRY, FAMILY MEDICINE, GARDENING, HOME-MADE WINES, PICKLING, POTTING, PRESERVING, RULES OF HEALTH, AND EVERY OTHER SUBJECT CONNECTED WITH DOMESTIC COOKERY. BY Mrs. MARY EATON. EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS. BUNGAY: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. AND R. CHILDS. 1823.
FIRST EDITION 1923. 8VO. 2fep. Half Title. [2] Frontispiece of Mrs Eaton. First engraved title page with 1/2" torn of the top of page (without loss of text) [1] Second Title page. [1] (1)vi-xxxii Introduction. 1-495. [1] 2feps. Full modern dark brown calf with raised bands and gilt box and gilt writing in one compartment. With slight age browning to Frontis. Overall a very nice copy.
- Mrs Eaton appears to be a very confident woman. She states in her introduction; --- "A great number of outlandish articles are intentionally omitted, as well as a farrago of French trifles and French nonsense, in order to render the work truly worthy of the patronage of the genuine English housekeeper. It may also fairly be presumed, that the superior advantages of the present work will immediately be recognized, not only as comprehending at once the whole theory of Domestic Management, but in a form never before attempted, and which of all others is best adapted to facilitate the acquisition of useful knowledge". --- The unique, beautifully engraved title page gives a date of 1822, but clearly the publication was delayed until the next year as the normal printed second title page bears the date 1823. Cagle surmises that the work may have been published in parts which would explain the discrepancy in dates based on the labeling of the signatures, but this is not proven. Oxford is the only bibliographer to mention another edition of 1849, and the compiler is also aware of an 1833 edition. Simon BG 542; Bitting p.139; Oxford, p.152; Cagle 661.

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Antiquarian category

ref number: 11073

Dubois. Urbain - His rarest work.
Grand Livre des Patissiers et des Confiseurs
PAR URBAIN-DUBOIS AUTEUR DE LA CUISINE ARTISTIQUE, DE LA CUISINE DE TOUS LES PAYS, DE LE CUISINE CLASSIQUE OUVERAGE EN DEUX PARTIES RENFERMENT CENT TRENTE-HUIT PLANCHES GRAVES Premier partie: 38 Panches PARIS LIBRAIRE E.DENTU, GALERIE D'ORLEANS, PALAIS-ROYAL ET DANS TOUTES LES GRANDES LIBRAIRIES 1883 Droites de tradnction [sic] et de reproduction reserves.
FIRST EDITION. 1883. 2 Volumes in one. Very thick 4to. 310x240x70mm. Marbled front paste-down. 1st Volume: 1fep. Half title. [1] Title Page. Verso with Dubois's facsimile signature. (1)viii Preface dated 1882. (1)x-xxiv La Patisserie with a double page engraving of a Grand Buffet de Bal. 1-338. 4 Full page plates with each verso blank. (1)b-i Table Alphabetique. [1] With 38 Planches. 2nd Volume: (1)350-698. (1)700-701 Table Alphabetique. [1] 1fep. [1] Back endpaper and paste-down marbled. With 100 Planches. With wonderful conditioned dark blue pebbled cloth boards and dark blue 1/2 morocco spine with raised bands and blind tooling, and with gilt lettering. Internally very clean with very mild foxing on occasion. A very good copy of a very scarce book.
- Urbain Dubois, born 1818 at Trets, Provence, died in 1901. This is the one of the scarcest of Dubois' books. It is a monumental work with the same striking visual impact as two of Dubois' other works -- 'La Cuisine Classique' 1856, and 'La Cuisine Artistique' 1870. The 138 plates of highly elaborate centerpieces of the Patissier's craft, some with armature designs for the structures of the desserts, and also with recipes for each dish, amaze and delight the reader. Research of documentation reveals that these labour intensive and time consuming centerpieces also graced the tables of Versailles, as early as the 17th century. A two volume set was also published and sold in the same year - 1883. It has exactly the same content and page collation, the only difference being the separate title page for the 2nd volume. This very scarce two volume - single book, is a handsome, thick and heavy tome. It is by far the hardest of Dubois' books to find. It is much sought after and commands very high prices at auction. Bitting p131, 2 volumes. Vicaire p291, 2 volumes. BL has one copy of 1895. Not in Cagle.

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Antiquarian category

ref number: 11074

Hamp Pierre - He worked under Escoffier at the Savoy.
Kitchen Prelude
(Mes Metiers) by PIERRE HAMP Translated from the French by DOROTHY BOLTON (With a printers device) NEW YORK E.P. DUTTON & CO., INC.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1933. 8vo. 193x140mm. 1fep. Half Title. [1] Title page. [1] 1-309. [1] 3feps. Original orange cloth binding with brown writing on the spine. The spine slightly sun bleached. Overall a very nice clean copy of a very scarce book. Not known if it should have a dj.
- Pierre Hamp has written a very interesting book of his life learning to be a Patissier and a main kitchen chef. He started his apprenticeship on Friday 13th November 1891 at M. Arthur Laborde's Patisserie at 13 Rue Demours in the Quartier des Ternes. At the bottom of the pecking order of thirteen apprentices and five cooks, he goes on to describe a very hard life (normal for the time) learning his trade. After his apprenticeship in Paris he moved to London and worked for some time under Escoffier at the Savoy. The blistering pace and hours as an apprentice gave him a highly critical professional sense that comes across in his writing. He also gives unique insights into the characters and personalities of a big Kitchen brigade that are not so different from those of today. Although Hamp is quite critical of Escoffier, one gets a unique sense of the chefs as people he had under his charge. A good read about a bygone age. Chefs reading this will see that many things remain the same, especially the sense of professionalism and pride of good well trained craftsmen.

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Modern category

ref number: 11075

Robuchon. Joel - With Robuchon's signature.
Simply French
PATRICIA WELLS presents the cuisine of JOEL ROBUCHON Photographs by Steven Rothfield Jacket photographs by Robert Freson William Morrow and Company, Inc. New York (With coloured borders at the top and bottom of the page and a coloured design)
FIRST EDITION 1991. 4to. 263x210mm. 1fep with small illustration. Half title with a photograph and coloured borders at the top and bottom of the page and a coloured design. [1] 1p Advertisement. Frontispiece coloured photograph. Title page. Verso with printers info and ISBN. Dedication page with a handmade paper planche with Robuchon's signature in ink. [1] 9-10 Acknowledgements. p11 Contents. p12 with Coloured Photo. 13-354. 355-367 Index. Verso - A note about the Authors. 1fep. All pages with border top and bottom. Many full page coloured photographs throughout. A full mylar cream coloured binding with silver writing on the spine. With the original dj. As new inside and out.
- Joel Robuchon's book 'Simply French' is an attempt by Robuchon to 'translate' three star concepts to the home. The chef and owner of the three Michelin starred Parisien restaurant Jamin, describes his cooking, within the context and impact of Nouvelle Cuisine as 'Cuisine Actuelle'. When reading this impressive book one wonders how the housewife would manage with the 'Ivory Turbans of Shrimp and Pasta' or 'Festive Shrimp Salad' or afford the Caviar, Truffles, Lobster etc. To be fair a lot of the recipes are simplified and one may feel inspired after reading the interviews and introduction at the beginning. Robuchon, a very influential force in French, English and European gastronomy, has, with the help of Patricia Wells brought out an impressive and well designed book that belongs at the forefront of any modern cookery book collection.

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Modern category

ref number: 11076

Laurent Paul
Artistic Sugar Work
and Petit Fours. Maclaren & Sons Ltd., London & Glasgow. "Craft" Series.
FIRST AND SOLE EDITION 1934. Square 8vo. 205x205mm. 1fep. Half title. [1] Title page. [1] 1p Introduction. [1] 1p Section 1. [1] 9-175. 1p Contents. 1fep. With many b/w photographs in text. Full maroon cloth binding. With gilt lettering on the front board and spine. In very good condition with very slight rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine only.
- Paul Laurent was the Chef Patissier and Confectioner for 10 years at the Langham Hotel, London. This is a book dedicated to other professionals. Definitely not something the housewife would browse to find a little table decoration to make for a Saturday evening dinner party. The b/w photographs do not really do justice to this area of gastronomic craftmanship. They still manage to show that when done well, pieces of sugar work can surprise and amaze the uninformed. In the brigades of big professional kitchens, chefs competent and skilled in the difficult art of sugar-pulling and sugar-blowing were/are very rare. Books on sugar-work are rarer still.

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Modern category

ref number: 11077

Dodoens. Rembert - The rare first ed. of 1578 with Thos. Campion's signature.
A Nievve Herball,
Or, HISTORIE OF PLANTES: wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse and per-fect description of all sortes of Herbes and Plantes: their diuers & sundry kindes: their straunge Figures, Fashions, and Shapes: their Names / Natures / Operations / and Ver-tues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our Countrie of Englande / but of all others also of forrayne Realmes / commonly used in physicke. First set forth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Do-doens, Physition to the Emperour: And nowe first translated out of French into English, by Hen-ry Lyte Esquyer. AT LONDON by m Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne. 1578. Title within woodcut historiated border, with woodcut arms of the translator on verso.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 1578. Large thick 4to. 295x202mm. 1fep. Engraved Title strengthened and reinforced at the edges with no loss. On the verso - Henry Lyte's coat of Arms and a crest "a swan volant silver upon a trumpet gold," (which was not actually granted him by Clarenceux King of Arms uпtil the following year). 2p, Dedication to Queen Elizabeth. 1p, Dedication to the friendly and indifferent Reader. 3p, Latin text headed W.B. and Thomas Newton. 1p, A commendation to Henry Lyte. 2p, To the Reader, in commendation of this worke. Verso - woodcut portrait of Dodoens. 4p, Medical credentials of Rembert Dodoens. 2p, Epistola ad Lectorem of Rembert Dodoens. 6p, Appendix. 1-779. 24p Index in Latin. (one page with srengtheened edge). On verso, Antwerp printers allegorical woodcut colophon. 2 feps, first blank with neat manuscript writing and on the last blank; Thomas Campion's signature. The first six pages and the engraved title page slightly dusty. With 870 woodcuts of plants. A full dark brown calf binding with blind tooled lines and device on the boards. The spine with raised bands, blind tooled lines and a red morocco label with gilt lettering. A nice copy of the very rare first with the wonderful woodcuts. (It was even described as very rare in the 17th century). Bookplate on front paste-down of Henry W. Poor.
- Rembert Dodoens, born Mechelen, Belgium on June 29, 1517, died in Leyden, Netherlands on March 10, 1585. He was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinised name Rembertus Dodonaeus. In 1530 he started his studies of medicine, cosmography and geography at the University of Leuven, where he graduated in 1535, then establishing himself as a physician in Mechelen in 1538. He married Kathelijne De Bruyn(e) in 1539. From 1542-1546 he stayed in Basel. He turned down a chair at the University of Leuven in 1557, also turning down an offer to become court physician of emperor Philip II of Spain, instead choosing to became the court physician of the Austrian emperor Rudolph II in Vienna (1575-1578). He then became professor of medicine at the University of Leiden in 1582. Dodoens' great herbal ‘Cruydeboeck’, 1554, was influenced by the herbal of Leonhart Fuchs. He divided the plant kingdom in six groups. It treated in detail especially the medicinal herbs, which made this work, in the eyes of many, a pharmacopoeia. It was translated first into French in 1557 by Charles de L'Ecluse and called a ‘Histoire des Plantes’, and then into English (via L'Ecluse) in 1578 by Henry Lyte, and titled ‘A Neiwe Herbal, or Historie of Plants’. This first edition of the English translation was printed in folio at Antwerp, in order to secure the woodcuts of the original; the blocks being too heavy and valuable to transport. It has 779 pages mostly in black-letter and 870 woodcuts, about thirty of which are original. Lyte added very little original matter to the text. A second edition in square octavo and without any woodcuts, was printed in 1586 in London by Ninian Newton, and a third in 1595 by Edmund Bollifant in the same size. A folio edition also without woodcuts was published by Edward Griffin in 1619. In its time, it was the most translated book after the Bible. It became a work of worldwide renown, used as a reference book for two centuries. Dodoens's last book, ‘Stirpium Historiae Pemptades Sex sive Libri XXX’, 1583, was the Latin translation of his ‘Cruydeboeck’. It was used as a source by John Gerard for his Herball. The BL holds four copies; This first of 1578, other editions of 1586, 1595 and 1619. THOMAS CAMPION was born in London on February 12, 1567. He was a law student, a physician, a composer, a writer of masques and a poet. He went to Peterhouse College - Cambridge in 1581. In 1586 was admitted to Gray's Inn in London to study law. He participated in the Gray's Inn revels of 1588 and contributed songs to the Gesta Grayorum revels of 1594, but seems never to have been called to the bar. Campion's first poetic attempts were in Latin. His love of quantitative versification in classical Latin poems carried over into his English poems and songs. Campion was first published in 1591, when five of his songs appeared in Newman's unauthorized edition of Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. Four years later he published his own book, a collection of Latin epigrams, called Poemata (1595). Campion's reputation rests chiefly on his lyric poems, which are distinguished by their musical quality and charm. They were published 1601-1617 in four books of airs, beginning with A Booke of Ayres to be Sung to the Lute, Orpherian and Bass Viol (1601). Campion spent three years (1602-1605) on the Continent, and received the M.D. degree from the University of Caen in 1605. After returning to England, he practised as a doctor in London from 1606. During that time, he wrote several masques which were performed at the court of James I. Perhaps the best of them was the Lords' Masque (1613). In 1613 he also published A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint, a book on music theory. Campion died in London, probably of the plague, on March 1, 1620, and was buried at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West. Henry W. Poor whose bookplate is tipped into this book, was born in 1844, and was an American banker and publisher of 'Poors' Railway Manual'. He was also a famous wall street dealer, active in leather and ice securities garnering a fortune in excess of $5,000,000. He was a collector of fine art and had a library that was without equal anywhere in the country. He died in 1915.

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Antiquarian category

ref number: 11078

Green Thomas - 2 volumes - 1824.
THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL;
VOLUME 1: OR, BOTANICAL, MEDICAL, AND AGRICULTURAL DICTIONARY. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF all the known Plants in the World, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE LINNEAN SYSTEM. SPECIFYING THE USES TO WHICH THEY ARE OR MAY BE APPLIED, WHETHER AS FOOD, AS MEDICINE, OR IN THE ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. WITH THE BEST METHODS OF PROPAGATION, AND THE MOST RECENT AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS. Collected form indisputable Authorities. ADAPTED TO THE USE OF THE FARMER - THE GARDENER - THE HUSBANDMAN - THE BOTANIST - THE FLORIST - AND COUNTRY HOUSEKEEPERS IN GENERAL.. BY THOMAS GREEN. THE SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED. VOL.1. (Printers device) LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY HENRY FISHER, Printer in Ordinary to His Majesty. PUBLISHED AT 38, NEWGATE-STREET; AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. VOLUME 2: THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; OR, BOTANICAL, MEDICAL, AND AGRICULTURAL DICTIONARY. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF all the known Plants in the World, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE LINNEAN SYSTEM. SPECIFYING THE USES TO WHICH THEY ARE OR MAY BE APPLIED, WHETHER AS FOOD, AS MEDICINE, OR IN THE ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. WITH THE BEST METHODS OF PROPAGATION, AND THE MOST RECENT AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS. Collected form indisputable Authorities. ADAPTED TO THE USE OF THE FARMER - THE GARDENER - THE HUSBANDMAN - THE BOTANIST - THE FLORIST - AND COUNTRY HOUSEKEEPERS IN GENERAL.. BY THOMAS GREEN. THE SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED. VOL.11. (Printers device) LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY HENRY FISHER, Printer in Ordinary to His Majesty. PUBLISHED AT 38, NEWGATE-STREET; AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
Large thick 4to. 2x275x220mm. VOLUME 1: 2feps. [1] Hand-coloured allegorical frontispiece of Wisdom and Activity collecting Vegetables. An engraved allegorical hand-coloured vignette title. [1] Title Page. [1] 2p Preface. (1)2-10 Introduction. [1] 1 hand-coloured plate of simple leaves. 11-790. 3 feps. VOLUME 2: 3feps. [1] Hand-coloured allegorical frontispiece of Elements producing Plants & Flowers. Title Page. [1] (1)4-883. (1)2-56 Apendix. 4feps. Both volumes hold a total of 109 -- 3 frontispieces and 106 very finely coloured botanical plates. Each plate is dated, also with the Latin name from the Linnean System and common English name given for each plant. Both volumes finely and fully bound in modern dark tan calf with blind tooling on the edge of the boards. The spines have raised bands with gilt lines and devices in the compartments. Each has a dark red morocco label with gilt lettering. Internally very clean. A very handsome set.
- Thomas Green was a British author who published this massive herbal dictionary in 1816. Little is known about him, but he may be the same Thomas Green who wrote Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature (1810), Memoirs of her Late Royal Highness Charlotte Augusta (1818) and A Biographical Memoir of the Late Edward Pearson DD (1819). These books on show here are illustrated with three fine allegorical frontispieces by William Marshall Craig and stipple-engraved (a method of engraving in which a grainy effect is produced by a series of tiny dots or flecks) by R. Hicks. Craig was a fashionable miniature painter who illustrated London Cries (1804) and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1788 to 1827. The 106 botanical plates were engraved by F. Dixon, G. Dobie, W. Swift and others. Most of the plates depict two or four plants, and many were copied from originals by famous botanical artists such as Merian, Ehret and Miller. The pineapple, melon, lemon and pepper were copied from Maria Sybilla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705); the orchid, carnation, papaya, etc., were copied from Philip Miller's Gardener's Dictionary (1755). This handsome book 'The Universal Herbal' is an encyclopedia of herbal knowledge, augmented with gardening and cooking information, this popular book was re-issued in this second edition revised format in 1824 at the Caxton Press, London, and Henry Fisher, Liverpool. The BL has 4 copies. Surprisingly three are odd variants -- an 1820 and a n/d, both printed in Liverpool. One of 1923 has no place of printing, also one dated 1924. The BL does not have a first of 1816.

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Antiquarian category

ref number: 11079

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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Antiquarian category

ref number: 11080