The Good Housewife; or, Cookery Reformed: containing a Select Number of the Best Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Dandying, Pickling, &c: together with a Distinct Account of the Nature of Aliments... Published at the request of a physician of great experience, who, for the benefit of the purchaser, has... shewn why several things heretofore used in cookery, and inserted in other books, have been prejudicial to mankind, second edition, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some browning at edges of first and last few leaves, occasional soiling and staining, contemporary sheep, worn at edges, spine chipped at head and foot, upper cover near detached [ESTC N473881; cf. Maclean p.35; Oxford p.86-87, first edition], 8vo, P. Davey and B. Law, 1756

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EXTREMELY RARE second edition of the previous year's Cookery Reformed; or, The Lady's Assistant. It has not been traced in bibliographies or auction records, and just one copy is listed on ESTC (New York Public Library), along with five copies of the first edition (none of which are in the UK).

Provenance: "Mr Thos. Filips"; "Elizabeth Taylor her Book Given by Mrs Mosher at the Glaziers Arms Water Lane Black Fryers" [and in another hand:] "about 1798. Died when she was about 10 or 12 years old her mother died some years before, and her father boarded with Mrs Mosher after her death who lived near his factory", inscriptions on final blank leaf.

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