By [Mary Kettilby]
London   W. Parker
8" by 5" viii, 272pp. [4]
A smartly bound copy of Mary Kettilby's noted cookery book for women, bound in full modern calf.
By [Mary Kettilby]

1746 A Collection Of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; For the Use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses.

London   W. Parker
8" by 5" viii, 272pp. [4]
A smartly bound copy of Mary Kettilby's noted cookery book for women, bound in full modern calf.
£450.00
: 0.75kgs / : 974Z13

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Description

Leather Binding

The sixth edition, to which is added the second part containing a great number of excellent receipts, for preserving and conserving of sweet-meats &c. Part two features its own title page.

Bound in full modern calf. Endpapers and blanks renewed.

The register runs continuously as; A8-R8, S2. Collated, complete. 

Mary Kettilby's fantastic English cookery book, intended for the use of women, with contributions from various house-wives. The book features early recipes for Christmas and suet pudding, and is known for containing the first printed recipes or orange marmalade without chunks.

Condition

Bound in full modern calf. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally lovely. Internally firmly bound with scattered spotting throughout. Loss to the page opposite the title, the odd closed tear and slight loss to the corner of pp. 130. Significant closed tear to pp. 47.

Very Good Indeed

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