
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 65•
PRICE (ELIZABETH) A New Book of Cookery, printed for the Authoress, and sold by Alex. Hogg, [1780?]
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,187.50 inc. premium
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PRICE (ELIZABETH)
A New Book of Cookery; or Every Woman a Perfect Cook: Containing a very great Variety of approved Receipts in all the Branches of Cookery and Confectionary... To which are Added, the Best Instructions for Marketing, and Sundry Modern Bills of Fare; also Directions for Clear-Starching, and the Ladies' Toilet... A New Edition for the Present Year, engraved frontispiece showing 2 cooks at work in a large kitchen (image just shaved at outer edge), facsimile signatures of the author and publisher on verso of title, modern calf, gilt spine with red morocco label [ESTC T100757; Oxford p.109-110], 8vo, printed for the Authoress, and sold by Alex. Hogg, [1780?]
Footnotes
A very good copy, complete with the frontispiece found wanting or defective in most copies of any of the four editions which have sold at auction. ESTC cites two copies of our edition (British Library and Library of Congress).