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The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : on a new plan : made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom ... : to which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c., for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. : embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates

Title
The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : on a new plan : made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom ... : to which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c., for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. : embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates / by John Farley, principal cook at the London Tavern.
Author
Farley, John, active 18th century.
Publication
London : Printed for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker ... B. Law ... and G. and T. Wilkie ..., 1787.

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Description
[32], 448 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., port.; 22 cm. (8vo)
Subjects
Note
  • Original edition published: London : Printed for John Fielding ... and J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker ..., 1783. Cf. Cagle, W.R. A matter of taste, 675.
  • Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-2F⁸.
  • Illustrations: 13 prints : engraving ; full-page. Comprise port. of the author, dated Jan. 1st, 1785, and 24 diagrams of seasonal table settings.
Indexed In (note)
  • ESTC (RLIN)
  • Maclean, V. Household and cookery books
Call Number
*KU 00-290
LCCN
87111748
OCLC
  • 22907334
  • NYPGR22907334-B
Author
Farley, John, active 18th century.
Title
The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : on a new plan : made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom ... : to which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c., for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. : embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates / by John Farley, principal cook at the London Tavern.
Imprint
London : Printed for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker ... B. Law ... and G. and T. Wilkie ..., 1787.
Edition
The fourth edition, with the addition of upwards of one hundred and fifty new and elegant receipts in the various branches of cookery.
Indexed In:
ESTC (RLIN) T78585
Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 50.
Local Note
Helen Hay Whitney Collection.
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Research Call Number
*KU 00-290
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