Cookery -- [Glasse (Hannah)]: The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, new edition, 8vo, for W. Strahan [and others], 1770 [Vicaire 414; Bitting p. 189; Oxford p. 77 'This famous book'; Maclean p.60] (lightly soiled), modern half calf -- Mollard (John): The Art of Cookery, 8vo, 1836 [cf. Vicaire 601; cf. Bitting p.328; cf. Oxford p. 130], (lacking engraved frontispiece, replaced in facsimile), modern half calf -- [Kitchiner (William)]: The Cook's Oracle, fourth edition, 8vo, 1822 [Vicaire 641; Bitting p.262; cf. Oxford p.146], modern half calf. (3)

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Cookery -- [Glasse (Hannah)]: The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, new edition, 8vo, for W. Strahan [and others], 1770 [Vicaire 414; Bitting p. 189; Oxford p. 77 'This famous book'; Maclean p.60] (lightly soiled), modern half calf -- Mollard (John): The Art of Cookery, 8vo, 1836 [cf. Vicaire 601; cf. Bitting p.328; cf. Oxford p. 130], (lacking engraved frontispiece, replaced in facsimile), modern half calf -- [Kitchiner (William)]: The Cook's Oracle, fourth edition, 8vo, 1822 [Vicaire 641; Bitting p.262; cf. Oxford p.146], modern half calf. (3)

Lot Essay

Bitting: 'This edition [of Kitchiner] contains a list of 212 cookery books, dating from 1513 to 1814. The author states their pages are filled with "strange and unaccountable, and uselessly extravagant farragos, and heterogenous compositions."

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