Royal-Cookery; or, the Complete Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in all the particular Branches of cookery, now in use in the Queen's Palaces of St. James, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor. With near Forty figures (curiously engraven on Copper) of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations Instalments; Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; Also receipts for making of Soupes, Jellies, Bisques, Ragoos, Pattys, Tansies, Forc'd-meats, Cakes, Puddings, &c. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne. To which are added, bills of fare for every Season of the year.
London: Printed for Abel Roper and sold by John Morphew, near Stationer's Hall, 1710. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), [12], 127, [12], [12] pages. 35 plates, mostly folding. The final, unnumbered pages include bills of fare and bookseller's advertisements. All edges marbled. FIRST EDITION, published a year after the great chef's death. Maclean describes an additional printing of the first edition, printed for and sold by Maurice Atkins. "Lamb brought.....