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THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 77

VERRAL (WILLIAM)
A Complete System of Cookery... A Variety of Genuine Receipts, for the author, 1759

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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VERRAL (WILLIAM)

A Complete System of Cookery... A Variety of Genuine Receipts, Collected from Several Years Experience under the Celebrated Mr. de St. Clouet, sometime Fine Cook to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, some foxing and browning, title reinforced at inner edge and with perforated stamp of Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass., last 3 leaves with lower corners restored, modern panelled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label [ESTC T31055; Bitting p.477; Maclean p.147; Oxford p.89; Simon BG 1553], 8vo, for the author, and sold by him; as also by Edward Verral Bookseller, in Lewes; and by John Rivington, 1759

Footnotes

Sole edition of this recipe book by the 'Master of the White-Hart Inn in Lewes' (title-page), a hotel and restaurant on the High Street frequented by Thomas Paine the following decade, and still in existance. "The recipes offer an illuminating glimpse of French 'nouvelle cuisine', with its light, simple dishes, as it was practised in England in the 1730s and 1740s... Today Verral is remembered for his cookery book, one of the very few to give a true picture of French cookery in England in the middle of the eighteenth century. Verral's recipes are clear and well explained, with comments on the relative merits of French and English cookery, and on the success of particular dishes. Such a balanced discussion of the two cuisines is extremely rare among the mass of xenophobic comment which characterizes English cookery books of the period" (ODNB).

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