Description
The universal cook, and city and country housekeeper : containing all the various branches of cookery ... Together with directions for baking bread, the management of poultry and the dairy, and the kitchen and fruit garden; with a catalogue of the various articles in season in the different months of the year. Besides a variety of useful and interesting tables. By Francis Collingwood, and John Woollams, The Second Edition. Printed by R. Noble, for J. Scatcherd, London, 1797, 451 pp plus publisher’s list, thirteen engraved plates, modern leather, 9 x 5.5”, 8vo. In fair condition. Later binding accomplished in the 1990’s. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing to surface of leather. Handsomely bound. End papers fresh and clean. Gift inscription on pastedown dated 1996. Lacking title and frontis portrait. Facsimiles have been placed in the front gutter for reference. Light toning throughout with scattered, moderate foxing. Light offsetting from plates. Free of known marginalia. Collated and complete without title and frontis. Binding intact. Rear fly has old hand notations. Please see photos. Scarce cookery. The authors were described as the principal cooks at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. An early English cook book by “restaurant chefs” rather than by a housewife or cook working in a noble household. This work received the accolade of being translated into French in 1810. Gives a month-to-month calendar of appropriate cuisine for the seasons. COLM1797FMNX-823
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