The Cook's Paradise; being William Verral's 'Complete System of Cookery' Publish in 1759 with Thomas Gray's Cookery notes in holograph
London: The Sylvan Press, [1948]. Small octavo (18 x 13 cm.), 139 pages. An interesting modern edition of an 18th century cookbook, William Verral's Complete System of Cookery (1759), which was reproduced from the copy owned by Thomas Gray, the English poet, letter-writter, and classical scholar, and includes reproductions of Gray's annotations. "It appeals to the revelation of ancient culinary mysteries while adding the attraction of the fact that the.....