THE COMPLEAT HOUSEWIFE: or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion. Being a Collection of Upwards of Six Hundred of the Most Approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry etc.Bills of Fare for Every Month of the Year. A Collection of Above 300 Family Receipts of Medicines etc.

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The first edition of this best selling cookbook and home guide was published in the UK in 1727 and its US edition of 1742 is considered by some to be the first cookery book published there. Fve copper plates at the rear which have lost their outer edges affecting the diagrams, which are for "the regular disposition or placing of the various dishes and courses." Some stains and small losses to a few pages not affecting the text. The frontispiece is stuck to the front board and has chips, creases, stains and inked initials. In three places are the names of Mary and Thomas Boswell and the statement at the rear that the latter died 14th December 1820. The joints are splitting and the leather covers have been re-atta hed clumsily with a vellum spine glued to the back of the text block. Much scuffed with other repairs. A poor but scarce and much used. Loosely inserted is an ancient flyer, with light brown stains, for Roche's Herbal Embrocation with quaint instructions for its application and to "Keep the Body gently open". Pasted to the rear board is an anti-papist list of accusations. Seller Inventory # Gsmiteco043

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