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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.

First edition hard back binding in contemporary full leather covers, five raised bands, red and gilt title lettering label to the spine, blind tooling to the front and rear panels. 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Cookery book written by Eliza Smith which was first published in 1727 and ran through 18 editions by 1773. The first four editions were published under the byline "E S", but Smith did reveal she was a woman 'constantly employed in fashionable and noble Families for the Space of thirty Years and upwards'. The fifth edition of 1732 gave the author's name as 'E. Smith'. It was the first cookery book to be published in the Thirteen Colonies of America and was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1742. It contained the first published recipe for 'katchup' which included mushrooms, anchovies and horseradish, it also appears to be the earliest source for bread and butter pudding. Contains lovely wood block engraved illustrated header to the preface, illustrated capital letter 'I', (xiv), wood block engraved illustrated header to page 1, illustrated capital letter 'T', 326 printed pages of text, small headers throughout, six plates which should be folding; however, the fold-out part of each plate is missing, 16 page index, colophon, (ii) publisher's printed books list. Front end papers absent, small piece of paper missing to the bottom corner of pages 35 and 291 just touching the text block, old pen notes to the rear paste down and end paper, dusty page edges, the odd early page with toning to the margins. Member of the P.B.F.A. FOOD [British Cookery]