Devon, England: Prospect Books, 1983. Quarto, 218 pages. Glossary. Index. List of subscribers. FIRST EDITION thus, of the Prospect Books facsimile of the original 1747 edition. The Art of Cookery was the most successful and influential English cookbook of the eighteenth century. Hannah Glasse (1708-1770) was the wife of an attorney and the mother of eight children, and she published the first edition of her Art of Cookery -- a......

London: J. P. Segg & Co., 1890. Quarto, 240 pages. FIRST EDITION. Elaborately designed and printed golden age travel guidebook, The text, printed in lavender, within decorative neo-classical golden borders, with many illustrations of many destinations of London and fashionable resorts. Attractively printed trade card for Bollinger's Champagne pasted-down to the front endpaper. All edges gilt. In soiled and worn blue and gilt-stamped red, beveled cloth. Front hinge repaired. Rear.....

London: The Cookery Book Club, Rainbird Reference Books, 1971. Octavo, 127 pages. Book club printing. Illustrated with engravings throughout. This book was edited by Robin Howe after the untimely death of food researcher Zara Groundes-Peace. It includes British "old cookery lore, household recipes, advice on the choice of kitchen implements, and on dining etiquette". Rust colored cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. near very good.

London: Dean & Munday, 1820. Duodecimo, iv, 288 pages. Illustrated frontispiece and four engraved plates. Third edition, probable second printing. The book sports two title pages, one dated 1819 and one 1820, which leads us to presume that the printer just added the 1820 title page without removing the former. A fairly popular work that Oxford indicates had at least nine editions. Includes some interesting medical remedies, including this one.....

London: Neville Spearman Ltd., [1958]. Octavo (19.4 x 13 cm.), xi, 100 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. One of the many useful and charming cookbooks written by Ambrose Heath (1861-1961). Heath, born Francis Geoffrey Miller, was an English journalist and food writer who penned more than one hundred cookbooks starting in 1933 with Good Food. "A stew by any other name..." Small red ink stain to free front endpaper, and a......

[Dumfries]: printed for the author, [circa 1760]. Small octavos in 4s (15 x 9 cm.), 186 pages. FIRST EDITION, though priority not firmly established. MacLean states “another ed. Edinburgh: printed for E. Wilson at Dumfries, [c.1760]” (though that edition is dated, “M.DCC.LX” at the foot of the title page); the Wilson issue has 136 pages. Cagle refers to the Wilson issue as “Second Edition”. Both editions display the misspelled author’s.....

London: William H. Ainsworth, 1827. Octavo, 276 pages, with two folding plates and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. The author's full name was William Alexis Jarrin [Guglielmo Alexis]. In early editions, including this one, the name is abbreviated "G.A." Later he anglicized his name, abbreviated as "W.A." "In 1820 Jarrin published this work, The Italian Confectioner, through which he is best known. The book.....

London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, [circa 1900]. Thick octavo (20.5 x 16 cm.), vi, 728, [2] pages. Index. Advertisements. Illustrated with six chromolithographic plates, and engravings in the text. Main text in double columns. Undated later printing of a popular Victorian cookbook, modeled largely after Mrs. Beeton's famous work. The original publication, in a much smaller format, was issued in 1868. Bound in original red cloth, gilt.....

London: Keen, Robinson & Co., [circa 1900]. Small octavo, 36 pages. FIRST EDITION. Rare collection of one hundred traditional English recipes, each now promoting the use of Robinson's tinned barley crystals. The tentative dating is based on the corporate history of the venerable Keen's mustard and Robinson's barley brands. Keen, Robinson & Co. was acquired by the Colman mustard company in 1903. Wear and staining to covers, paper lightly age-toned;.....

London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple Gates in Fleet Street, 1717. Two works bound as one. Octavo, 84 & [19], 115, [1] pages. Fifth and Second editions, respectively. The "first original eighteenth century English treatise on gardening" [Henrey, p. 415], together with its companion, The Gentleman's Recreation. In 1718, following the printing of this volume, a third work was added, The Fruit-garden Kalendar... in order to make his.....

London; Holborn: Houlston & Stoneman, 65 Paternoster Row; Printed by A Swetting, Bartlett's Buildings, [1849]. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), 332 pages. Index. Date of publication from Oxford (page 179), and the British Library and Oxford Brookes records. Stated "new edition, corrected and improved” originally issued in 1842 by Charles Knight & Co. Includes a notable section titled, "American Mode of Cooking Indian Corn, Pumpkins, &c." with seventeen recipes, including.....

London: Christophers, 1929. Octavo (20.5 x 13.5 cm.), xii, 231 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. Not so much a cookbook of French recipes as an application of French techniques to English cooking, with an eye to bringing the later to new heights. Includes a chapter on wine and its appropriate use with certain dishes. A few small dog ears, otherwise fine, in publisher's blue cloth, in a very near fine dust.....

Edinburgh: Printed for the author, and sold by her, at her house, Stephen Law's close, back of the City-guard, 1777. Duodecimo (17.5 x 11 cm.), [i-v] vi-xii, [1], 2-238. Detailed table of contents. Publisher's advertisement. Stated and evident "second edition"; originally issued in 1773, with a second printing in 1774 (see Maclean, page 92). Susanna MacIver ran one of the few cookery schools in Edinburgh, a task shared with Mrs.....