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THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 67

RABISHA (WILLIAM)
[The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected], second edition, E. Calvert, 1673

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £318.75 inc. premium

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RABISHA (WILLIAM)

[The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught, and Fully Manifested, Methodically, Artificially, and According to the Best Tradition of the English, French, Italian, Dutch, &c.], 3 parts in 1 vol., second edition, lacks title-page, dedication and 5 other leaves (B1-2, D7, G5 & T8), headlines cropped throughout, first 5 and last leaves softened and chipped at fore-edge with loss, a few other leaves torn without loss of text, contemporary sheep, worn, covers roughly sewn with later thread (lower cover near detached), spine chipped [ESTC R218376; Bitting pp.386-7; cf. Oxford p.30-31; Simon BG 1248], small 8vo, E. Calvert, 1673, sold not subject to return

Footnotes

Incomplete and fragile copy of the second edition of Rabisha's scarce cookery book. The Cornish author, who claimed to have worked for many noble families, divides the book into three sections: the first is on pickles, fish, meats and fruit, the second is entitled 'Rare recipes in Cookery', and the third part deals with preserving, conserving and candying.

Provenance: 'Deffyd(?) Thomas of Swansea in the County of Glamorgan Gentleman', inscription on final page; some other eighteenth-century inscriptions of Welsh owners on blank verso of b4.

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