
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 69•
REGIONAL PRINTING WESTCOTT (Mrs.) The Family Receipt Book, Plymouth, 1818; and 3 others (4)
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £573.75 inc. premium
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REGIONAL PRINTING
WESTCOTT (Mrs., Late Housekeeper to the Right Hon. the Earl of Morley) The Family Receipt Book; Containing a Great Variety of Useful Family Receipts, list of Plymouth area subscribers, ownership inscriptions of Sarah Balkwill (1825) and descendants, occasional spots and some old ink splashes, contemporary calf gilt, upper cover detached [Oxford p.146, no copies on Library Hub or in auction records], Plymouth, for the author by Haviland & Creagh, 1818--The Housekeepers' Friend, or Manual of Cookery. By a Lady, piece torn from margin of D6 with loss of a few words, publisher's blindstamped cloth gilt, stain to upper cover, Norwich, Jarrold and Sons, [1852]--EATON (MARY) The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary Including a System of Modern Cookery in all its Various Branches, adapted to the Use of Private Families, Also a Variety of Original and Valuable Information Relative to Baking, Brewing, Carving, engraved portrait, additional title and 4 plates, foxing and browning, contemporary sheep, upper cover near detached [Bitting p.139; Oxford p.152], Bungay, J. & R. Childs, 1823--HUNTER (ALEXANDRA) Culina famulatrix medicinae; or, Receipts in Modern Cookery; with a Medical Commentary, engraved frontispiece, contemporary tree calf, rebacked [cf. Bitting p.238; Simon BG 872], York, Wilson for J. Murray, 1810, 8vo (4)