
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 33•
JENKS (JAMES) The Complete Cook: Teaching the Art of Cookery in all its Branches; and to Spread a Table, in a Useful, Substantial and Splendid Manner, at all Seasons in the Year... with an Appendix Teaching the Art of Making Wine, Mead, Cyder, Shrub... For the Use of Families, FIRST EDITION, E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1768
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £382.50 inc. premium
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JENKS (JAMES)
The Complete Cook: Teaching the Art of Cookery in all its Branches; and to Spread a Table, in a Useful, Substantial and Splendid Manner, at all Seasons in the Year... with an Appendix Teaching the Art of Making Wine, Mead, Cyder, Shrub... For the Use of Families, FIRST EDITION, last 2 leaves browned at edges, contemporary sheep, extremities worn, joints cracked, small chip at foot of spine [ESTC T91233; Bitting p.245; Maclean p.75; Oxford pp.97-98], 8vo, E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1768
Footnotes
Relatively scarce household manual and receipt book, including "dishes for Lent and Fast-days", "Real and Mock Turtle" and sections on distilling, brewing, the management of poultry and bees (title-page). One other edition followed, published in Dublin the following year.