Beschreibung:

The Frugal Housewife, or Complete Woman Cook. Wherein the art of Dressing all sorts of Viands, with Cleanliness, Decency and Elegance, is explained in Five Hundred approved Receipts... And making of English Wines... With various Bills of Fare, printed for E. Newbery, circa 1800, 180 pp., two engraved plates, 12 woodcut illustrations of table settings, some light spotting, previous owner signatures, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, 12mo, together with Cleland (Elizabeth) , A New and Easy Method of Cookery... To which are added by way of Appendix, fifty-three new and useful Receipts and Directions for Carving, 2nd edition, Edinburgh, 1759, occasional light spotting and soiling, contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo, plus The Queen's Closet Opened. Being Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Surgery, Preserving, Candying and Cookery, 11th edition, 1720, title supplied in facsimile, final two leaves misbound, bound with The Compleat Cook: Prescribing the most ready ways for dressing flesh, and fish, ordering sauces, pickles, jellies and making pastry after the newest manner, 1710, advertisement at end, some toning and water stains, modern cloth, 12mo, with two others: Cookery and Pastry. As taught and Practised by Mrs Maciver, Teacher of those Arts in Edinburgh, new edition, 1789 and The Honours of the Table, or, Rules for Behaviour During Meals... [by John Trusler], 2nd edition, 1791 (5)