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The London art of cookery and housekeeper's complete assistant : on a new plan made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook and servant in the kingdom ... to which is added an appendix containing considerations on culinary poisons, directions for making broths, &c. for the sick, a list of things in season in the different months of the year, marketing tables, &c. &c. : embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraven on thirteen copper-plates / by John Farley ...

Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection TX705 .F37 1800
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Farley, John, active 18th century, author.
Contributor:
Barker, John, -1831, printer.
Scatcherd, James, ǂd 1755-1828, bookseller.
Wilkie, Thomas, -1824, bookseller.
Walker, John, active 1781-1817, bookseller.
Whitaker, J., bookseller.
W. J. and J. Richardson (Firm), bookseller.
Longman and Rees (London, England), bookseller.
Lackington and Co., bookseller.
Cadell & Davies, bookseller.
Darton & Co., bookseller.
Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English.
Penn Provenance:
Tavera, Antoine (bookplate) (Smith copy)
Physical Description:
xxiv, 448 pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm (8vo)
Edition:
The ninth edition, with the addition of many new and elegant receipts in the various branches of cookery.
Fingerprint:
asso b.s, s.o- none (3) 1800 (A)
Place of Publication:
London : Printed by John Barker, no. 6, Old Bailey, for James Scatcherd, no. 12, Ave-Maria-Lane, T. Wilkie, Messrs. Richardsons, Longman and Rees, Lackington and Co. Cadel and Davies, Darton and Co. J. Walker, J. Whitaker, 1800.
Notes:
Colophon on leaf 2F8v reads: Printed by John Barker, No. 6, Old Bailey.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ B-2F⁸.
"[Price Six Shillings Bound.]"--Title leaf.
Local Notes:
Smith copy has manuscript bibliographical and provenance note in French in pencil on front free endpaper; early manuscript recipe for quince brandy on verso of frontispiece plate.
Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries at auction on 17 December 2020 from Bonhams (lot 4).
Smith copy has illustrated bookplate ("EX-LIBRIS ANTOINE TAVERA") on front pastedown.
Cited in:
ESTC T131715
OCLC:
38681363

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