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HARVEY (RICHARD, ATTRIBUTED) The Farmer's Wife; or the Complete Country Housewife; Containing Full and ample Directions for the Breeding and Management of Turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. How to Make Sausages... for making Wines... Cyder... Butter... Cheese... Beer... the Management of Bees... Breeding and Managing Song Birds. Likewise a Variety of Receipts in Cookery, WILLIAM COWPER'S COPY, [c.1780] image 1
HARVEY (RICHARD, ATTRIBUTED) The Farmer's Wife; or the Complete Country Housewife; Containing Full and ample Directions for the Breeding and Management of Turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. How to Make Sausages... for making Wines... Cyder... Butter... Cheese... Beer... the Management of Bees... Breeding and Managing Song Birds. Likewise a Variety of Receipts in Cookery, WILLIAM COWPER'S COPY, [c.1780] image 2
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 27

[HARVEY (RICHARD, ATTRIBUTED)]
The Farmer's Wife; or the Complete Country Housewife, WILLIAM COWPER'S COPY, [c.1780]

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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[HARVEY (RICHARD, ATTRIBUTED)]

The Farmer's Wife; or the Complete Country Housewife; Containing Full and ample Directions for the Breeding and Management of Turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. How to Make Sausages... for making Wines... Cyder... Butter... Cheese... Beer... the Management of Bees, with an Account of the Use of Honey... Breeding and Managing Song Birds. Likewise a Variety of Receipts in Cookery, WILLIAM COWPER'S COPY, with his bookplate, engraved frontispiece, near contemporary half calf (a remboitage preserving original pastedowns with bookplate and signature of Mrs Johnson), spine gilt [ESTC T191102; Maclean p.52; Oxford p. 111-2], 12mo, Alexander Hogg, [c.1780]

Footnotes

William Cowper's copy of this scarce manual of husbandry, brewing, beekeeping and cookery, possibly by Richard Harvey of Bungay, whose work on mathematics is advertised in the other edition published by Hogg around the same time (no precedence established).

Provenance: William Cowper (1731-1800), bookplate; John Johnson, poet, cousin and friend of Cowper in his final years, signature ("J. Johnson) on verso of portrait; signature of Mrs Johnson above the bookplate; Helen Barker, Harriet Smith and Margaret Knox (all née Bent), their sale, Christie's, 21 November 1986 (since when rebound).

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