
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 66•
PRICE (ELIZABETH) The New, Universal, and Complete Confectioner, A. Hogg, [1785?]
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £892.50 inc. premium
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PRICE (ELIZABETH)
The New, Universal, and Complete Confectioner; being the Whole Art of Confectionary Made Perfectly Plain and Easy. Containing a Full Account of all the Various Methods of Preserving and Candying, both Dry and Liquid..., the whole Revised, Corrected, and Improved..., engraved frontispiece of a lady giving a book to her cook, dampstain in inner margin of frontispiece and title, another stain affecting last 2 leaves, modern calf antique, gilt spine with red morocco label [ESTC T181810; Maclean p.118; cf. Bitting p.382 and Oxford p.110], 8vo, A. Hogg, at the King's arms, No. 16 Paternoster Row, [1785?]
Footnotes
The second scarce work by Elizabeth Price, complete with the frontispiece. The date of the first edition is uncertain (Maclean erroneously dates it to around 1760, but the publisher Hogg was only active from 1770). A second edition was printed by S. Couchman for Hogg in about 1780, also with 94 pages, and this was followed by the present expanded edition of 172 pages, printed in about 1785. Of the five copies of any edition listed in auction records, only two were complete with the frontispiece.