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The British Housewife, or, The cook, housekeeper's and gardiner's companion / by Mrs. Martha Bradley, late of Bath (1756).
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX705 .B79 1996 v.1-6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradley, Martha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.
- Cooking, English.
- Home economics--England--Early works to 1800.
- Home economics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 6 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Facsimile edition
- Other Title:
- British housewife
- Cook, housekeeper's and gardiner's companion
- Place of Publication:
- Blackawton, Totnes, Devon [England] : Prospect Books, 1996-1998.
- Contents:
- v. 1. January, General introduction
- v. 2. February, March
- v. 3. April, May
- v. 4. June, July
- v. 5. August, September
- v. 6. October, November, December.
- Notes:
- "First published in weekly parts in 1756, then issued as a two-volume set that same year or the next. This facsimile edition is also divided, but into six, not two, volumes."--Page preceding title page.
- First volume has introduction by Gilly Lehmann.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy volumes 1-6 presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy volumes 1-6 have bookplates of Chef Fritz Blank.
- ISBN:
- 0907325637 (set)
- 0907325661 (v. 1) :
- 090732567X (v. 2) :
- 0907325688 (v. 3) :
- 0907325696 (v. 4) :
- 090732584X (v. 5) :
- 0907325858 (v. 6) :
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