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 the various dishes and courses, and also bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines ... by E.S.
London: Printed for J. Pemberton, 1727. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), [16], 326, [16] pages. Signatures: A-X Y ( -Y4) a . Index. Illustrated with woodcut vignettes in the text, and with [6] folded leaves of plates; lacking part of plate no. 1, after the first fold. Bitting notes the "plates are not usually present until the 9th edition and those that follow" (page 438). Other titles: Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion;.....