BRIGGS, Richard ("Many years cook at the White-Hart Tavern, Holborn: Temple Coffee-House, and other Taverns"). The English Art of Cookery, Dublin, for P. Byrne, 1791, 12°, 24 woodcut "Bills of Fare for the Year" (two "Bills of Fare" torn with serious loss, but neatly replaced in later pen and ink facsimile, occasional light spotting and staining), contemporary calf (lightly rubbed, spine slightly scuffed, corners neatly repaired). [Maclean p. 16; cf. Vicaire 116; Bitting p. 60; Oxford p. 115]

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BRIGGS, Richard ("Many years cook at the White-Hart Tavern, Holborn: Temple Coffee-House, and other Taverns"). The English Art of Cookery, Dublin, for P. Byrne, 1791, 12°, 24 woodcut "Bills of Fare for the Year" (two "Bills of Fare" torn with serious loss, but neatly replaced in later pen and ink facsimile, occasional light spotting and staining), contemporary calf (lightly rubbed, spine slightly scuffed, corners neatly repaired). [Maclean p. 16; cf. Vicaire 116; Bitting p. 60; Oxford p. 115]

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