Court Cookery: or, The Compleat English Cook
by Cook, Robert (under Mr. Lamb)
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- Hardcover
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London: T. Wotton at the Three-Daggers, Fleet Street, 1725. Book. Good. Full-Leather. Second Edition with Additions. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 218 pages plus index. Containing the Choicest and Newest Receipts for making Soops, Pottages, Fricasseys, Harshes, Farces, Ragoo's, Cullises, Sauces, Forc'd-Meats, and Souses: With various ways of dressing most sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, wild and tame; with the best methods of potting, collaring and pickling. As likewise of pastes, pies, pastries, puddings, tansies, biskets, creams, cheesecake, florentines, cakes, jellies, sillabubs and custards. Also of candying and preserving: With a bill of fare for every month in the year, and the latest improvements in cookery, pastry. etc. Oxford page 55, lists the first edition of 1723. Preface of this edition is dated Piccadilly, Nov. 21, 1724. Good tight clean book, original boards, spine has been replaced with full brown leather, raised bands and gilt title to red label..
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- Books & Bygones
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Court Cookery: or, The Compleat English Cook
- Author
- Cook, Robert (under Mr. Lamb)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition with Additions
- Publisher
- T. Wotton at the Three-Daggers, Fleet Street
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1725
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Cookery Cooking Food Recipes History English Pickles
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookery; Cookery - Preserves; Cookery - History and Reference;
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Tight
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- 12mo
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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