Catherine Frances Frere Editor (4 results)

Reprint of the 1994 New edition. Unabridged. With original Preface; new Introduction by Geraldine Holt. xvi + 415pp; illustrated. Blue boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. No inscriptions. VG in dustwrapper. [a reprint of the original edition of 1909, which contains details of hundreds of recipes collected by Lady Clark, wife of Sir John F Clark of Tillypronie near Aboyne, between 1841 and her death in 1897].…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. An attractive facsimile of this 16th-century recipe book, acknowledged as one of the earliest cookbooks in English. Facsimile edition with an example of the original title page. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one in-text woodcut figure from the original text. Collated complete. A delightful facsimile printing of this anonymous and historically significant sixteenth-century recipe book. Surviving across three editions (1545, 1557-1558 and 1575), this work stands as one of the earliest cookery books in English. It is even more unique in that it was aimed at both general readers and women running their own households. Edited by Catherine Frances Frere, with an enlightening introduction of historical and social context surrounding domestic life, cookery and feasts in the Tudor days. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Hinges just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good. None (illustrator). book. …

Original Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Handsome near fine copy of this new edition. Endpapers lightly foxed.

Gilt Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. clxiv, 124 pp. Publisher's gilt-decorated brown cloth. Boards and gilt bright. Internally clean. No ownership names. Frontis portrait. With facsimile of the original title page. 1913 reprint of the second English cookery book. 8vo.