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, frontispiece, thirteen engraved plates, original leather, 9 x 5.5”, 8vo. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities with minor scuffing to surface of leather. Rear board attached by one piece of cording at head only - VERY fragile. Spine abraded with heavy wear and loss at bottom compartment. Binding exposed. Joints tender with scuffing and red rot. Peeling at corners. Worn overall. Lacking front flyleaf. Old hand ownership of Ann Evans on the half title. Light toning throughout with scattered, moderate foxing. Light offsetting from plates. Free of known marginalia. Binding intact. Please see photos. 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. Scarce cookery. Second Edition. RAREB1797FPQX - 09/23 FORN-SHELF-0461-BB-2409-HKREV76
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