The Housekeeper's Instructor, or, Universal family cook :being a full and clear display of the art of cookery in all its branches ... to which is added, the complete art of carving ... The Seventeenth Edition. Corrected, revised, and considerably improved, by every modern addition and variation in the Art, by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie.
London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 17, Paternoster-Row, [1823]. Octavo (21.5 x 14 cm.), 464 pages. Index. Lacking the frontispiece portrait of Schnebbelie. Engraved title featuring a cornucopic table. Illustrated with eleven plates, mostly carving instructions and menus. Stated seventeenth edition. While Andre Simon claimed this was "probably the most popular cookery book in England during the last decade of the eighteenth century" (BG, page 81), Maclean pushes back on this.....