The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. : Written purely from practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper : consisting of near nine hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print ... / by Elizabeth Raffald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.

Contributor:

Baldwin, Robert, 1779 or 1780-1858, bookseller.

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--Early works to 1800.

Cooking.

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, iii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates (3 unnumbered pages.) : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The eleventh edition, with an engraved head of the author, also two plans of a grand table of two covers, and a curious new invented fire stove, wherein any common fuel may be burnt instead of charcoal.

Fingerprint:

edse ,and owle anan (3) 1794 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for R. Baldwin ..., MDCCXCIV [1794]

Notes:

Signatures: A⁴ B-2C⁸.

Woodcut facsimile (author's signature) and tail-piece.

Type ornament head-pieces and factotum.

"The following useful and entertaining books are published by R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater-Noster-Row.": Leaf 2C8.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy has early ms. notes on verso of frontispiece and leaves A4r, O1r and Y6v; ms. slip tipped in before leaf X3.

Cited in:

ESTC N31563

OCLC:

24260533