The Compleat Housewife: or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion: Being a Collection of Six Hundred of the Most Approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials .. To Which is Added, a Collection of above Three Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz Drinks, Syrups Salves, Ointments, and other Things....
London: Printed for J. and H. Pemberton, at the Golden Buck, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1741. The Tenth Edition, with very Large Additions. Hardcover, [20], 354, [12] of [14] pages of index. Later 19th century 1/4 leather. 20 cm. Lacks last unnumbered Index leaf and all six folding plates. Backstrip perished and front and back covers are worn and detached. Text lightly rippled. Rather narrow margined along top -- perhaps trimmed when rebound. OCLC locates about a dozen copies of this 18th century edition. Little is known about the author. The first edition of this popular 18th century cookery item was published in 1727. An American edition collected from the 5th edition and published in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1742 is regarded as the first cookbook published in America. Fair. Item #96084
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