The general receipt-book, or, Oracle of knowledge : containing several hundred useful receipts and experiments in every branch of science, including medicine, chemistry, mechanics, dying, painting, colouring, pickling, preserving, &c. &c. : with directions for making British wines the whole so clearly explained as to be within the reach of the most limited capacity / compiled and extracted from valuable private manuscripts, public documents, and expensive works of the most eminent practitioners by H. Gifford, chemist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gifford, H.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Formulas, recipes, etc--Great Britain.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

Wine and wine making--Great Britain.

Wine and wine making.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Medicine.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

141 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 15 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

General receipt-book

Oracle of knowledge

Fingerprint:

s.on d.as ofm. ofpo (3) 1790 (Q)

Place of Publication:

London : Published by J. Smith, 193, High Holborn, [not before 1830]

Notes:

Bitting supplies a publication date of ca. 1790, but Todd's Directory of printers records J. (i.e. Joseph) Smith's occupation of 193 High Holborn from 1829-1845.

"In offering a new Edition ... [t]he publisher has also altered the size of this little Volume, so as to make it more portable ..."--Address.

Signatures: A-E¹² F¹²(-F12).

Woodcut illustrations.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Penn Libraries copy bound in one-quarter red cloth over original boards; edges uncut.

Cited in:

Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 183

OCLC:

18908336