A Perfect School of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth : shewing the whole art of a master of the houshold [sic], a master carver, a master butler, a master confectioner, a master cook, a master pastryman; being a work of singular use for ladies and gentlewomen and all persons whatsoever that are desirous to be acquainted with the most excellent arts of carving, cookery, pastry, preserving, and laying a cloth for grand entertainments; the like never before extant in any language; adorned with pictures curiously ingraven, displaying the whole arts / by Giles Rose, one of the master cooks in His Majesties kitchen.
London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1682. Duodecimo (15 x 9 cm.), title leaf, [22], 563 pages. Illustrated with forty-two pages of woodcuts of which a few depict table settings and the majority the carving of various fowl (capon, turkey, goose, duck, pigeon, woodcock, partridge, pheasant, etc.), veal, mutton, wild boar, pig, hare, fish, and lobster and the decorative carving of fruit. ~ FIRST & ONLY EDITION IN.....