Professed cookery: containing boiling, roasting, pastry, preserving, potting, pickling, made-wines, gellies, and part of confectionaries : with an essay upon the lady's art of cookery : together with a plan of house-keeping / by Ann Cook, teacher of the true art of cookery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Ann (Writer on cookery), author, publisher.

Contributor:

Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770, contributor.

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

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--Early works to 1800.

Cooking.

Cookbooks--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Cookbooks.

Housekeeping--Early works to 1800.

Housekeeping.

Home economics--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Beard, James, 1903-1985 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Royal Baking Powder Company. Educational Department (stamp) (Kislak Center copy)

Robertson, Mrs. (former owner) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[2], x, 182, 185-189, [9], 191-270, 269-296 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The second edition.

Fingerprint:

y:y, esed p.th saSp (3) 1755 (A)

Place of Publication:

[Newcastle upon Tyne] : Printed for the author, and sold at her house in the Groat-market, Newcastie [sic], 1755.

Notes:

With a half-title.

Signatures: pi² a⁴ A-X⁴ Y⁶(-Y6?) Z⁶ [superscript chi]Z⁴(-Z4) 2A-2N⁴ 2O².

Woodcut title vignette, factotum, head- and tail-pieces.

"The art of cookery" is by Hannah Glasse.

"Price 6s."--Title leaf.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy imperfect: leaves N2, N3, and Z1 wanting.

Kislak Center copy has a few early manuscript annotations in text.

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak Center copy has the bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank on verso of half-title leaf; illustrated bookplate of James Beard on front pastedown; red ink stamp ("EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT, ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.") on front pastedown; early manuscript ownership inscription ("Mrs. Robertson her Book") at head of leaf A1r.

Kisak Center copy: leaf T1 bound in out of order after leaf T3.

Kislak Center copy: left board detached; backstrip wanting; textblock separated at leaf X2.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue N39831

OCLC:

17459708