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THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 14

COOK (ANN)
Professed Cookery, Newcastle, 1755

Amended
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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COOK (ANN)

Professed Cookery, containing Boiling, Roasting, Pastry, Preserving, Potting, Pickling, Made-wines, Gellies, and Part of Confectionaries. With an Essay upon the Lady's Art of Cookery. Together with a Plan of House-Keeping, second edition, slightly browned throughout, some foxing, burn mark to gathering Aa, without half-title, contemporary sheep, rebacked, edges worn, spine cracked [ESTC N39831; Bitting p.98; Maclean p.35; Oxford p.91-2], 8vo, Newcastle, Printed for the author, and sold at her house in the Groat-market, 1755

Footnotes

Ann Cook was Hannah Glasse's great rival, the introduction to her Professed Cookery comprising a 68-page unrelenting attack on Glasse and The Art of Cookery. The second part of the book, 'A Plan of House‐Keeping', gives an account of Cook's alleged campaign of intimidation at the hands of Glasse's half-brother Lancelot Allgood. Included in the lot is a copy of a pamphlet by Madeleine Hope Dodds entitled The rival cooks: Hannah Glasse and Ann Cook (1938, inscribed by the author and with a letter from her inserted).

Provenance: "Ann Ornsby, her Book the 26 Day of May 1765 at Lanchester", inscription with another dated 1772 on front free endpaper.

Saleroom notices

Please note that this lacks pp.285-292 towards the end.

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