The English Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice; Being a Complete Guide to All Housekeepers, on a Plan Entirely New; Consisting of Thirty-Eight Chapters.... by Briggs, Richard - 1791

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Dublin, Ireland: P. Byrne. FR/No Dustjacket. 1791. Leather. Spine worn, rubbed. . 12mo., xxiv, 24 Bill of Fare, 532 pages., LACKS TITLE PAGE! rest complete. .

Printed for G. C. and J Robinson., 1794 8vo. iv, xx, 564 printed pages. Twelve engraved plates of Bills of Fare (for the 12 months of the year, each one being a table layout of oval or octagonal dishes). Owners contemporary signature to the head of leaf i. Collates a8, b4, A - Z8, Aa - Nn8, Oo2. Endpapers replaced. 14.5 x 21 cm. Contemporary black quarter calf binding with marbled boards, recently respined with a contrasting maroon gilt lettered label. Lacks title-page (supplied in photocopy). Small repair to the page iii-iv, affecting a few words of text. Two plates with marginal corner tears, otherwise a very good copy. The English Art of Cookery is a cookery book of English cuisine by the tavern cook Richard Briggs ("many Years Cook at the Globe Tavern, Fleet-street, the White-Hart Tavern, Holborn, now at the Temple Coffee-house."), first published in 1788. It includes recipes for toad in a hole, mushroom ketchup and puff pastry, and examples of Anglo-Indian influence (in the Pickling… Read More

P. Byrne. Dublin. 1791. 12mo. . pp. xxiv, 24 Bill of Fare, 532. Later half calf, spine spltting along one side, title with the stamp of Ch.H. SENN, the prelims. dampmarked, some foxing throughout, LACKING the final leaf, pages 533-534 BAKING To preserve a large stock of yeast...... *Page 351 mis-numbered 352 and page 357 mis-numbered 355. ESTC gives Dublin City Library only, plus two locations in the USA. The pagination indicates that a single leaf, the final one, is missing from the the copy offered here.

London: G.G.J. And J. Robinson, 1788. [3]-iv, [1], ii-xx, plates, [1], 2-656pp. Modern calf, semi-raised bands, spine in six panels, old leather title label to second panel. Rubbed to extremities, lightly browned throughout, occasional light foxing, light stain to top margin starting about a hundred pages from the end and getting progressively heavier, though not affecting text. Piece missing from fore edge margin of a2 and O5, this catching a couple of letters to reverse but no loss of sense. With twelve plates as called for. ESTC N9216; Cagle 577; Maclean, page 15, Oxford, pages 115-116; Bitting, page 60 (the 1791 edition - with a note citing this first edition); Wellcome II:238 (for the 2nd and 3rd editions); Vicaire, page 116. Five locations in the UK and another five in the US in ESTC. First Edition. Full Calf. Good. 8vo.