Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(COOKERY.) Farley, John. The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper's Complete Assistant. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; 12 engraved plates showing monthly bills of fare. [32], 455, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked; plates dampstained, stain in outer margin of preliminaries, contents otherwise clean. London: J. Scatcherd et al., 1789

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Sixth edition of a work first published in 1783, largely plagiarized from the cookbooks of Elizabeth Raffald and Hannah Glasse.