![KIDDER (EDWARD) E. Kidder's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, for the Use of his Scholars. Who teaches at his school in Queen Street near St. Thomas Apostles. On Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, in the Afternoon... Ladies may be Taught at their Own Houses, [London, c.1720-1725] image 1](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2020-07%2F16%2F60125709-19-1.jpeg&w=2400&q=75)
![KIDDER (EDWARD) E. Kidder's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, for the Use of his Scholars. Who teaches at his school in Queen Street near St. Thomas Apostles. On Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, in the Afternoon... Ladies may be Taught at their Own Houses, [London, c.1720-1725] image 2](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2020-07%2F16%2F60125709-19-2.jpeg&w=2400&q=75)
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 35•
KIDDER (EDWARD) E. Kidder's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, [London, c.1720-1725]
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,402.50 inc. premium
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KIDDER (EDWARD)
E. Kidder's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, for the Use of his Scholars. Who teaches at his school in Queen Street near St. Thomas Apostles. On Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, in the Afternoon... Ladies may be Taught at their Own Houses, second issue with Queen Street on title-page, leaf K2 and additional plate, engraved throughout on rectos only, comprising portrait, title, 40 leaves of recipes, "Order for Bills of Fair" and index leaves, and 8 plates (3 folding, one with short tears and slightly frayed at outer edge), a few leaves shaved at foot (last 2 recipe leaves with partial loss of last line of text), 5 leaves with manuscript recipes in different early hands on blank verso, faint trace of old library stamp on title, D1 and one blank verso, ink reference number at foot of first leaf of text, modern blindstamped calf [ESTC T92424; Bitting p.124 (calling for an advertisement leaf, not present here or in other copies traced); Maclean p.82-84; Oxford p.71; Quayle p.89-94], 8vo, [London, c.1720-1725]
Footnotes
"KIDDER'S HANDSOME BOOK WAS A REMARKABLE PRODUCTION" (Maclean), apparently produced for students of the earliest known cooking school in England, run by Kidder in various London locations during the 1720s-30s. The work provides "a valuable record of 170 standard English dishes of the day, accompanied by attractive designs for pie shapes and decorations. The first recipe for puff pastry (identical to the standard commercial product of today) to appear in print is Kidder's" (ODNB). In Old Cook Books: An Illustrated History Eric Quayle devotes several pages to Kidder and his work.
Our copy, enriched with some manuscript recipes, is the issue with 2 additional leaves (one of recipes and the plate of 'Lamb Pastey' and 'Wild Boar Pye'). ESTC describes it as "a reissue of the 1740 edition", but this is almost certanly erroneous since Kidder died in 1739 and a copy sold at auction in 2016 bore an ownership inscription dated 1733/34. Maclean ventures a publication date of around 1725, Bitting slightly earlier.
Provenance: Mary Edwards, early ownership signature ("her book") on verso of portrait; Fraser-Hickson Institute, Montreal, faint stamps and inked name on edges (their online sale, 2016).
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