The Williamsburg art of cookery, or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion : being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most ancient & approv'd recipes in Virginia cookery ... and also a table of favorite Williamsburg garden herbs ... / by Mrs. Helen Bullock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bullock, Helen Duprey, 1904-1995, author.

Contributor:

Parks, William, -1750, associated name.

Woodcock, Curtis, (typesetter), typesetter.

Jones, Elmo, illustrator.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, publisher.

Dietz Printing Company (Richmond, Va.), printer.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, American--History--18th century.

Cooking, American.

Cooking--Virginia--History--18th century.

Cooking.

Hospitality--Virginia--History--18th century.

Hospitality.

Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.)--History.

Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.).

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (donor) (inscription)

Physical Description:

276 pages, [3] plates : illustrations ; 18 cm

Edition:

Seventh printing

Manufacture:

[Richmond] : Printed on the press of August Dietz and his son, in Cary Street, at Richmond, Virginia

[Richmond] : Hand-spaced and composed by Curtis Woodcock, of the Dietz Printing Company

Place of Publication:

Williamsburg : Published by Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated, MCM,LV. [1955]

Notes:

Publishing and printing information in single statement on title page.

Edition and copyright information taken from title page verso.

Typesetting information taken from page [275].

"The illustrations, by Elmo Jones, of Richmond, Virginia, are newly drawn in simulation of the Technique of eighteenth Century Engravers and are reproduced with Line Cuts" -- final page.

"Even as many of the recipes which it contains are taken or adapted from the first American Cook Book, which was printed at Williamsburg in 1742 by William Parks, so is this volume a typographical Adaptation from Parks' T̀he Compleat Housewife, or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion'"-- page [275].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-260) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has the inscription of Chef Fritz Blank and contains a guide to the restaurants of Williamsburg.

OCLC:

61136378