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The House-keeper's Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook: Containing Above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, Collaring, &c. With Plain and Early Instructions for Preparing and Dressing Every Thing Suitable for an Elegant Entertainment, From Two Dishes to Five or Ten, &c. Also a Copious and Useful Bill of Fare, of All Manner of Provisions in Season, For Every Month in the Year. Together With Directions For Making All Sorts of Wine, Mead, Cyder, Shrub, Distilling Strong-Waters, &c. For Brewing Ale and Smail-Beer, in a Cleanly, Frugal manner: and For managing and Breeding Poultry to Advantage. Likewise Several Useful Family Receipts For Taking Out Stains, Preserving Furniture, Cleaning Plate, Taking Iron-Moulds Out of Linen, &c. As Also Easy Tables, of Sums Reading Cast Up, From One Farthing to One Pound, For the Use of Those Not Conversant in Arithmetic: and Tables Shewing the Interest of Money From 3, 3 1/2, 4 and 5 Per Cent, From One Day to a Year. The Whole is so Contrived as to Contain More Than Any Book of Double the Price; and the Excellency of the Receipts Rendes it the Most Useful Book of the Kind
Sarah Harrison
1777
J. Rivington and Sons : London
7" by 4"
[9], 6-208, [30pp]
SUMMARY
The ninth edition of this uncommon cookery book for housekeepers in the eighteenth century, writing by Sarah Harrison. Last seen at auction in 2008.
Leather Binding,Uncommon
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
The ninth edition of this work.
An uncommon work. Last seen at auction in 2008.
ESTC citation number N17342.
Bound without the front endpaper.
This work is a duodecimo. The signatures run as [a1], A1, B-K12, A-B6.
'The House-keeper's Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook' is a standard cookery work first published in 1733. It was a popular work when it was originally published, at a time when cookery books was a burgeoning genre and market.
This work shows the common sensibility of trying to recommend ingredients that were of moderate price, and easy for a housekeeper or cook to get their hands on. Thus the author presents recipes which show elegance in eating, whilst in no way hindering frugality or good conduct. This helped the work's popularity among the public, as it didn't work to exclude those who couldn't afford certain ingredients.
The author also offers information on what foods are in season throughout the year, and also presents monetary tables for people who were not mathematically inclined.
Written by Sarah Harrison, who was active between the years 1733 and 1777. Very little is known about her life.
Newspaper clipping tipped onto the front pastedown, from the Bromley and Kentish Times on 3rd July 1970, as stated by an ink inscription under the clipping. The newspaper clipping is titled 'Cook book of 1778', and the article discusses a 1778 copy of 'The Experienced English Housekeeper' by Elizabeth Raffald, a work which ran to thirteen editions.
A ninth edition of this useful cookery book.
CONDITION
Rebacked in a quarter cloth binding with leather to the boards. Externally, generally smart, with rubbing to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the extremities. Marks to the front joint. Lacks front endpaper. Newspaper clipping and prior owner's ink inscription to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with the odd spot. Small chip and closed tear to the tail of leaf H6. Light dampstaining to the last few pages.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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