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The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published ... ; to which are added, by way of appendix, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, and a copious index / by a lady.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection TX705 .G53 1767
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770, author.
- Mead, Richard, 1673-1754, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.
- Cooking, English.
- Rabies--Treatment--Early works to 1800.
- Rabies.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Booksellers' advertisements.
- Physical Description:
- [3], ii-vi, [24], 384, [24] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
- Edition:
- A new edition.
- Fingerprint:
- ngy, ibib s.E. ansp (3) 1767 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for A. Millar, R. Tonson, W. Strahan, T. Caslon, T. Durham, and W. Nicoll, MDCCLXVII [1767]
- Notes:
- "A lady" is Hannah Glasse. See MacLean. "It is ... a myth that [Glasse's] works were written by the notorious John Hill"--MacLean; also see entry for Glasse in DNB.
- A facsimile of the author's signature is printed on the first page of text.
- Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-2C⁸ 2D⁴.
- Errors in pagination: pages 273-288 misnumbered 373-388.
- Woodcut head- and tail-piece.
- "[Price bound Five Shillings.]"--Title leaf.
- Sign
- "A certain cure for the bite of a mad dog ... [by] Dr. Mead."--Pages 328-329.
- "Another [cure] for the bite of a mad dog."--Page 329.
- "Books printed for, and sold by, A. Millar and T. Cadell in the Strand."--Leaf 2D4v.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Smith copy has modern manuscript bibliographical note in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Bonhams.
- Smith copy: tail outer corner of leaves 2C7-2C8 torn off; back free endpaper wanting.
- Cited in:
- MacLean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 59
- ESTC T103511
- OCLC:
- 83350299
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