Five Hundred New Receipts in Cookery, confectionary, pastry, preserving, conserving, pickling; and the several branches of these arts necessary to be known by all good housewives.
London: Printed for Tho. Asley, at the Rose against the North Door of St. Paul's, 1734. Octavo (20 x 12.5 cm.), iv, 249, [9] pages. Index. Publisher's advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. The last of the "court cookery" books, addressed to chefs of noble houses. The recipes are drawn it is claimed, largely from those of John Middleton, "Cook to his Grace the late Duke of Bolton. Revised and recommended.....