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Lot 17

COOKERY
[SMITH (ELIZA)] The Compleat Housewife; or, Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion, Adam Islip, 1597 (4)

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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COOKERY AND GARDENING

[SMITH (ELIZA)] The Compleat Housewife; or, Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion, 6 folding engraved plates of table settings, 16pp. advertisements at end, some dampstaining to preliminary leaves and plates, margin of leaf S3 strengthened, contemporary calf gilt, upper cover near detached [Cagle 996; Maclean, p.133; Oxford p.60], J. Pemberton, 1727--HAZLEMORE (MAXIMILIAN, Compiler) Domestic Economy; or, a Complete System of English Housekeeping... also the Complete Brewer, spotting, contemporary calf, red gilt morocco spine label, rubbed [Maclean, p.68; Oxford, p.122], J. Creswick, 1794--The Complete Family-Piece and Country Gentleman, and Farmer's Best Guide, one leaf (pp.251/2) defective, calf, laminated [Oxford, pp.66-68], S. Birt, 1736, FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo--The Orchard, and the Garden: Containing Certaine Necessarie, Secret, and Ordinarie Knowledges in Grafting and Gardening, black letter, woodcut device on title, one full-page woodcut illustration, comprises title, pp.1-28 (A1-D3) and pp.55-61 (H1-4) only, modern quarter morocco [ESTC S94532, citing 2 copies and mentioning signatures "A-C⁴+"], small 4to, Adam Islip, 1597 (4)

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.

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