
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 8•
CARTER (CHARLES) The Complete Practical Cook, FIRST EDITION, W. Meadows, C. Rivington and R. Hett, 1730
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £892.50 inc. premium
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CARTER (CHARLES)
The Complete Practical Cook: or, a New System of the Whole Art and Mystery of Cookery. Being a Select Collection of above Five Hundred Recipes for Dressing, after the most Curious and Elegant Manner (as well Foreign as English) all Kinds of Flesh, Fish, Fowl, &c. As also Directions to Make all Sorts of Excellent Pottages and Soups, Fine Pastry, both Sweet and Savoury, Delicate Puddings, Exquisite Sauces, and Rich Jellies, FIRST EDITION, title in red and black, 60 engraved plates of table setting (5 folding, one repaired at fold with slight loss, one soiled at fold and with short tears), hole in margin of F3, some spotting, soiling and dampstaining, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered [ESTC T90930; Bitting p.77; Maclean p.23; ], 4to, W. Meadows, C. Rivington, and R. Hett, 1730
Footnotes
"This is a large quarto with fine engravings of the courses at table" (Oxford), including specific dinners for the King as well as "A Table of Fowl" for each season.
Provenance: 'Ann Ruffan, Apriel 13', early ownership inscription on front free endpaper (another name cut from page); Marcus Crahan, bookplate; Marcus and Elizabeth Crahan Collection of Books on Food, Drink and Related Subjects, sale at Sotheby's, 9 October 1984.