
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 55•
MIDDLETON (JOHN) Five Hundred New Receipts in Cookery, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Astley, 1734
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
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MIDDLETON (JOHN)
Five Hundred New Receipts in Cookery, Confectionary, Pastry, Preserving, Conserving, Pickling and the Several Branches of these Arts Necessary to be Known by All Good Housewives ... Revised and Recommended by Mr. Henry Howard, FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut printer's rose device, occasional light soiling, slight stain on reverse of title, twentieth century vellum, gilt lettered spine, inner gilt dentelles, g.e. [Bitting p.324; Maclean p.101; Oxford p.64], 8vo, Thomas Astley, 1734
Footnotes
Collection of recipes from the repertoire of John Middleton, chef to the Duke of Bolton, for meat, game, fish, fowl, confectionary, pastries, preserving and pickling. "This title-page, in which the emblem of the printer figures so largely, is the favourite of the present compiler among all those of the eighteenth century" (Oxford).
Provenance: Howard C. Levis, bookplate.