
COOKERY [SMITH (ELIZA)] The Compleat Housewife; or, Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion, Adam Islip, 1597 (4)
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COOKERY AND GARDENING
Footnotes
Rare first edition of Eliza Smith's enormously popular cookery book "running to more than a dozen editions, only passing out of favour towards the end of the century... [and in 1742] the first cookery book to be published in America, preceding the first book of specifically American cookery by over fifty years" (ODNB). ESTC lists only one copy (Chicago), and only one copy has been traced as selling at auction.
Provenance: First work, "Jane Parminter 1739", ownership inscription on front free endpaper; Third work, "ex dono C. Crosse 1736", inscription on front free endpaper; Fourth work, William Swanston, bookplate.