
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 6•
BRADLEY (RICHARD) The Country Housewife and Lady's Director, 1728; and another (2)
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £765 inc. premium
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BRADLEY (RICHARD)
The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm... Directions for the Dairy... Drying and Kilning of Saffron, third edition, engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black (repair and stain at foot), occasional spotting and staining, with a loosely inserted leaf containing 2 eighteenth century MANUSCRIPT RECIPES ('A receipt to make Elder Wine from a Lady at Wandsworth', and another wine from Mr Taylor of Norfolk), modern speckled calf gilt [ESTC T184839; Bitting pp.55-56; Maclean pp.11-13; Oxford pp.58-59], Woodman & Lyon, 1728--LAURENCE (JOHN) The Clergy-Man's Recreation: shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece; The Gentleman's Recreation: or the Second Part of the Art of Gardening Improved. Containing... Curious Observations relating to Fruit-Trees: Particularly, A New Method of Building Walls with Horizontal Shelters, second edition, engraved frontispiece and 3 folding engraved plates (2 slightly frayed), 2 parts in 1 vol., each with engraved frontispiece, bookplate of William Trumbull, contemporary panelled calf, slight staining [ESTC 30847, T142272; Fussell pp.100-102; Henrey 937, 943; Hunt 437, 438], Bernard Lintott, 1717, 8vo (2)
Footnotes
Bradely's work is arranged according to the months of the year. "There are two dishes which are not likely to be imitated in the present day; one is a gammon of badger roasted, the other is viper soup" (Oxford).