The family magazine : in two parts ... with a supplement containing a great variety of experienced receipts from two excellent family collections, now first communicated for the public benefit, to which is added an explanation of such terms of art used in the work as could not be so easily reduced to the understanding of common readers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atkyns, Arabella.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Home economics--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.

Medicine, Popular.

Penn Provenance:

Parker, Satoko I. (donor)

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 123 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 324 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Osborn ..., 1741.

Contents:

(from t. p.) Part I. Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery, particularly shewing how to buy-in the best of all sorts of provisions, as poultry-ware, butchers-meat, fish, fruit, &c., with several hundred receipts in cookery, pastry, pickling, confectionary, distilling, brewing, cosmeticks, &c., together with the art of making English wines, &c.

Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick, succinctly treating of all the diseases and accidents incident to men, women, and children, with practical rules and directions for the preserving and restoring of health, and prolonging of life ... being principally the common-place book of a late able physician, by which he successfully, for many years, regulated his practice.

Notes:

Preface signed by Arabella Atkyns, a pseudonym.

Part II has a separate titlepage, pagination and register.

On p.xiv of the 'Preface' the writer refers to the author of Part II as her brother.

Signatures: A-I⁸ ²A-U⁸ X².

Includes index.

Cited in:

Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 550

Pennell, E.R. My cookery books, p. 150

Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 49

ESTC T87836

OCLC:

48544522