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The compleat housewife, or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion : being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts ... : with copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses : and also bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added a collection of above three hundred family receipts of medicines ... / by E. Smith.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection TX705 .S537 1750
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.
Contributor:
Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English.
Formulas, recipes, etc--Early works to 1800.
Formulas, recipes, etc.
Penn Provenance:
Aresty, Esther B. (donor)
Physical Description:
20 unnumbered pages, 392, xvi pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, 6 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Edition:
The fourteenth edition, to which is now prefixed, directions for marketing.
Other Title:
Compleat housewife
Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion
Accomplished gentlewoman's companion
Place of Publication:
London : Printed for R. Ware ... [and 8 others], 1750.
Notes:
Signatures: A⁸ (a)² B-2C⁸ 2D⁴.
Cited in:
ESTC, T139022
OCLC:
187469869

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