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Item #6511 The Frugal Housewife, or complete woman cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of...

Carter, Susannah, of Clerkenwell

The Frugal Housewife, or complete woman cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands, with cleanliness, decency and elegance, is explained in five hundred approved recipes... to which are added, various bills of fare, and a proper arrangement of dinners, two courses, for every month in the year.

Philadelphia: Printed by James Carey, 83, N. Second-Street, 1796. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), [xiii], 14-132 pages; three plates; two engravings depicting carving and a third woodcut depicting "Arrangement of a Supper Table". ~ Third American edition, first printing. Carter’s popular English cookbook (circa 1765), became one of the very earliest cookery books printed in the U.S. The American printings preceding this one were: Boston: Edes & Gill of 1772.....

Price: $4,500.00

Item #8672 The Frugal Housewife, or complete woman cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of...

Carter, Susannah, of Clerkenwell

The Frugal Housewife, or complete woman cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands, with cleanliness, decency and elegance, is explained in five hundred approved recipes... together with the best method of potting, collaring, preserving, drying, candying, pickling, and making of English wines; to which are added twelve new prints....

New York: Printed for Rogers and Berry, Pearl–Street, [1795]. 16mo. (16 x 9.5 cm.), [12], 180, [12], [2] pages. Two engraved plates of birds prepared for cooking; twelve plates of Bills of Fare with woodcuts of table settings. Publication date from Evans. Second American Edition, Second Printing, stated "revised and corrected" (from Note to the Reader). Carter’s popular English cookbook (circa 1768), became one of the earliest cookery books printed.....

Price: $4,000.00

Item #6886 The Frugal Housewife, or complete woman cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of...

Carter, Susannah, of Clerkenwell, London

The Frugal Housewife, or complete woman cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands, with cleanliness, decency and elegance, is explained in five hundred approved recipes... to which are added, various bills of fare, and a proper arrangement of dinners, two courses, for every month in the year.

Philadelphia: Printed by James Carey, 83, N. Second-Street, 1796. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), [xiii], 14-132 pages. Index. Illustrated with three plates; two engravings depicting carving and a third woodcut depicting "Arrangement of a Supper Table". ~ Third American edition, first printing. Carter’s popular English cookbook (circa 1765), became one of the very earliest cookery books printed in the United States. The American printings preceding this one were: Boston: Edes.....

Price: $7,500.00