The House-Keeper's Pocket-Book, And Compleat Family Cook: Containing above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts &c. Also, Every one their own Physician.

Published by Printed for C. and R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun on Lidgate Hill, London, 1764

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Eighth edition. 12mo, pp. [4], [1-4], [lacks B3&4], 9-215, [1], 36, [8 index], [24 tables]* + woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, plus 20 illustrations of table settings. Full contemporary calf, re-backed, five raised bands, backstrip lettered and ruled in gilt. Corners professionally restored, rubbed and scored, patches of darkening - burns? Offsetting from binder's glue, recent and contemporary ("John Allport[?]" POIS to ffep and title page, respectively, endpapers foxed, some browning, staining and soiling, esp. title page, chips and nicks, short closed tear to fore-edge of B1, some insect damage to margins and text block, affecting text of gatherings G, H, and I, final gathering loose with fore-edges creased and nicked, rear fep creased and frayed at bottom corner, 'Cooks Books' label to rear pastedown. ESTC T90919 (*in this copy the tables are bound in after the index). JiscLHD locates five copies (BL, NLS, UoStAndews, UoL & Wellcome), Worldcat adds another three copies (ClevelandPL, Cornell & UoCalifornia). Fair. A very well-handled copy (which lacks leaves B3 & B4) of the eighth edition of Sarah Harrison of Devonshire's popular pocket book for housekeeping, with Mary Morris' home physic book, with separate pagination, to rear; Harrison tells us: "This Eighth Edition is greatly altered and corrected for the better; having added several new and modern Receipts, that I have been favoured with, by Persons of known Abilities". First published in 1733, Sarah Harrison's domestic pocket book provided recipes and suggested menus for each month of the year, as well as general housekeeping tips for removing stains, cleaning dishes, and managing livestock, plus instructions for distilling and brewing. The sixth edition was the first to include Mary Morris' medical remedies.…

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Title
The House-Keeper's Pocket-Book, And Compleat Family Cook: Containing above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts &c. Also, Every one their own Physician.
Author
HARRISON, Sarah; MORRIS, Mary
Publisher
Printed for C. and R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun on Lidgate Hill, London
Publication year
1764
Condition
Fair
Binding
Full Calf
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Domesticity, Eighteenth Century

Quair Books PBFA

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Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We also hold a small general stock, with a focus on rare, significant and bonny books. We trade at fairs, online and via catalogue.

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