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THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 73

SMITH (ELIZA)
The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion, 1750; and 2 others (3)

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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SMITH (ELIZA)

The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion,, fourteenth edition, engraved frontispiece and 6 folding bills of fare, occasional light soiling and browning, contemporary calf, later leather spine label, joints restored [ESTC T139022; Bitting, p.438; Maclean p.134; Oxford p.60], R. Ware &c., 1750--[GLASSE (HANNAH)] The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy... by a Lady, occasional light soiling, bookplate of Robert Chambre Vaughan and signatures of other members of the family, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, head of spine chipped [ESTC T63525; Bitting, p.189; Maclean p.60; Oxford p.77], W. Strahan &c., 1770--MASON (CHARLOTTE) The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and Supplying the Table; being a Complete System of Cookery... Also Remarks on Kitchen-poisons, sixth edition, half-title, occasional minor spotting, contemporary tree calf, rebacked [ESTC N19313; Maclean p.95], J. Walter, 1787, 8vo (3)

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