
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 72•
SMITH (ALICE) The Art of Cookery... The Cellar-man... The Wine-maker Improved..., 1760
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,275 inc. premium
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SMITH (ALICE)
The Art of Cookery: or, the Compleat-housewife... to which is added, I. The Cellar-man; or House-keeper's Director for Managing Beer and Ale... II. The Wine-maker Improved..., second edition, some light dampstaining, trimmed with loss of some headlines, catchwords and occasionally text (B4v, I3v, I4r, N2v), modern calf, gilt lettered spine (slightly faded), [cf. Maclean p.133], 8vo, for the Author, 1760
Footnotes
Extremely scarce collection of recipes by Alice Smith, "many years employed in several families", who may have helped Elizabeth Price. This edition is not listed on ESTC, which along with Maclean records a single copy of the first edition of 1758 (New York Public Library). No copies of either edition have been traced in auction records.