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THACKER, John (late 18th century). The Art of Cookery. Containing above Six Hundred and Fifty of the most approv'd receipts heretofore published. Newcastle upon Tyne: I. Thompson, 1758.
8o (200 x 123 mm). 9 woodcut illustrations in text. (Some dampstaining and soiling.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, front cover with roll border cornered with a small bird tool, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the remaining with a repeated gilt panel, edges gilt (spine gilt lightly faded).
FIRST EDITION. John Thacker, "cook to the Hounorable and Reverend Dean and Chapter in Durham," opened a cooking school there in 1742. This work is the result of years of research and was intended to supplant those already published which were "far short of being generally useful, especially in these Northern parts, where the seasons occasion such alterations in the Bills of Fare for each month, from those calculated for the Southern parts" (Preface). Bitting, p.458; Cagle 1019; Maclean, p.140.
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FIRST EDITION. John Thacker, "cook to the Hounorable and Reverend Dean and Chapter in Durham," opened a cooking school there in 1742. This work is the result of years of research and was intended to supplant those already published which were "far short of being generally useful, especially in these Northern parts, where the seasons occasion such alterations in the Bills of Fare for each month, from those calculated for the Southern parts" (Preface). Bitting, p.458; Cagle 1019; Maclean, p.140.