The Family Magazine: in Two Parts. Part I. Containing Useful Directions in all the Branches of House-Keeping and Cookery. Particularly Shewing How to Buy-it the Best of all Sorts of Provisions; as Poultry-Ware, Butchers-Meat, Fish, Fruit, &c. With several Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Pickling, Confectionary, Distilling, Brewing, Cosmeticks, &c. Together with the Art of making English Wines, &c. Part II. Containing a Compendious Body of Physick; Succinctly Treating of all the Diseases and Accidents Incident to Men, Women, and Children: with Practical Rules and Directions for the Preserving and Restoring of Health, and Prolonging of Life.

Language: English

Published by J Osborn, London, 1741

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The Family Magazine: in two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery. Together with the Art of Making English Wines, &c. Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick. by Arabella Atkyns [pseudonym] DESCRIPTION: London : printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden-Ball in Paternoster-Row, MDCCXLI. [1741] 2 parts in one volume, 8vo, pp xiv, [2],123,[3];[2],324, a few place settings in text, bound in contemporary polished calf, spine with raised bands. First Edition. CONDITION: spine lacking label, worn and chipped at lower foot however sound. Corners of boards slightly worn. Modern replacement endpapers, minor soiling and signs of use throughout text however still a very good sound copy, especially for a cookery book of this period. Further comments At the end of the preface our anonymous author writes 'being still teized for some name, I will, tho' not my right one, subscribe that of Arabella Atkyns. So far no one has actually pinned down her actual name, but she was clearly an amateur cook, and states that the medical portion, which is longer than the cookery was taken from the manuscript commonplace book of her brother, a physician. 'The cookery part is well arranged, the medical part is full of horrors.' - Oxford. The first of at least three printings, all quite scarce. SIZE: 205 x 130 mm.…

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The Family Magazine: in Two Parts. Part I. Containing Useful Directions in all the Branches of House-Keeping and Cookery. Particularly Shewing How to Buy-it the Best of all Sorts of Provisions; as Poultry-Ware, Butchers-Meat, Fish, Fruit, &c. With several Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Pickling, Confectionary, Distilling, Brewing, Cosmeticks, &c. Together with the Art of making English Wines, &c. Part II. Containing a Compendious Body of Physick; Succinctly Treating of all the Diseases and Accidents Incident to Men, Women, and Children: with Practical Rules and Directions for the Preserving and Restoring of Health, and Prolonging of Life.
Author
ATKYNS, Arabella
Publisher
J Osborn, London
Publication year
1741
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition

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