Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
FARLEY, JOHN. The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper's Complete Assistant. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (offsetting onto title); 12 engraved plates showing monthly bills of fare. xx, 459, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked; scattered minor foxing. London: J. Scatcherd et al., 1784

Additional Details

Second edition of a work originally published the year before, largely plagiarized from the cookbooks of Elizabeth Raffald and Hannah Glasse. Cagle 676; Oxford, page 114.