The compleat housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion : being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials : with copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing of the various dishes and courses, and also bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of above three hundred family receipts of medicines ... / by E. Smith.

Author
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
The sixteenth edition, with additions.
Published/​Created
London : Printed for C. Hitch ... [and 12 others], 1758.
Description
[16], 396, xii p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)

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    Subject(s)
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    Notes
    Includes index.
    Binding note
    Contemporary calf binding, rebacked.
    Provenance
    Bookplate of Rebecca S. Footman and autograph signatures of various members of the Footman and Rawson families.
    Source acquisition
    Gift of Julian Street, and includes an A.L.S. from Elsie Frost to Street which has been tipped in. Inquire at Manuscripts Division.
    Other title(s)
    Accomplished gentlewoman's companion
    OCLC
    59669247
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