
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 26•
HARRISON (SARAH) The House-Keeper's Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook, 1755; and 3 others (4)
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £701.25 inc. premium
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HARRISON (SARAH)
The House-Keeper's Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook: Containing above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts...; Everyone their own Physician, 2 parts in 1 vol., sixth edition (first to contain the second part), woodcut illustrations of table settings, modern calf-backed boards, spine gilt [ESTC T126601; Bitting p.217; Maclean p.66; Oxford pp.63-64], R. Ware 1755--MACIVER (SUSANNA) Cookery, and Pastry, as Taught and Practised by Mrs. Maciver, Teacher of those Arts in Edinburgh, ownership inscriptions of Alison Lawson (Edinburgh, 1794) and Helen Bale, some staining and a little marginal worming towards end, contemporary sheep, joints cracking [ESTC N3517; cf. Bitting, p.299; Oxford p.106], C. Elliot & T. Kay, 1789--MOXON (ELIZABETH) English Housewifery, Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts, 2 parts in 1, eleventh edition (fourth of supplement), 8 woodcut table settings on 5 sheets (2 folding, one of these defective, the other torn without loss), some mainly light foxing and staining, contemporary sheep, spine chipped, upper joint cracked [ESTC T201432; Bitting p.333; Maclean p.104; Oxford p.78], Leeds, Griffith Wright for George Copperthwaite, 1775--HAYWOOD (ELIZA FOWLER) A New Present for a Servant-maid... Rules for her Moral Conduct... the Whole Art of Cookery, lacks frontispiece, stained at beginning and end, repair to leaf of preface affecting text, modern half calf [ESTC T75385; Bitting p.220; Maclean, p.67; Simon BG 828], G. Pearch, 1771, 12mo (4)