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The complete housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion : being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts ... ; with copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing of the various dishes and courses : and also bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added a collection of above three hundred receipts of medicines ... : with directions for marketing by E. Smith
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HSP in LCP (old HSP Wzz .274)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, English.
- Cookery--Early works to 1800.
- Cookery.
- Formulas, recipes, etc.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Physical Description:
- [40] p., 400 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- 18th ed., with additions.
- Other Title:
- Acomplished gentlewoman's companion.
- Compleat housewife.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Buckland, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, S. Bladon, W. Nicoll, C. and R. Ware, 1773.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: Lacks t.p., first 3 leaves, p. 399-400 and all plates.
- Bartram Collection.
- HSP copy on deposit in the Library Company of Philadelphia.
- Inscriptions: Samuel Talbot 1823, Kate Talbert(?), John Bartram Jr., James Thompson.
- OCLC:
- 11843749
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