The Complete English Cook; or, Prudent Housewife. Being an Entire New Collection of the Most General, yet Least Expensive Receipts in Every Branch of Cookery and Good Housewifery, FIRST EDITION, 34 diagrams of table settings within ornamental woodcut borders, some spotting and occasional staining, first and last few leaves a little browned at edges, piece torn from blank corner of first leaf of Preface, modern panelled calf by Period Binders, Bath, spine in compartments with raised bands, morocco label and blind-tooling [ESTC T92199; Maclean p.112; Oxford p.95-96], 12mo, Leeds, Printed by Griffith Wright, and sold by the author and J. Ogle, 1767

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Scarce first edition of this Leeds cookery book by Ann Peckham, "well known to have been for Forty years past one of the most noted Cooks in the County of York" (title-page). The work, which borrowed its title from Catharine Brooks' work from a few years earlier, was aimed principally at "young beginners", and five further editions were to follow, all published in Leeds.

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PECKHAM (ANN, OF LEEDS) The Complete English Cook; or, Prudent Housewife, FIRST EDITION, Leeds, 1767

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