Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(COOKERY.) Smith, Eliza. The Compleat Housewife . . . Being A Collection of upwards of Six Hundred of the most approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials . . . Tenth Edition, with very large Additions. Engraved frontispiece showing kitchen scene and 6 folding engraved plates of bills of fare (the second missing the outer half). [20], 354, 14 pages. 8vo, early 19th-century diced calf with morocco lettering piece; dampstain in outer margin of opening leaves, some headlines shaved. London: J. and H. Pemberton, 1741

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First published in 1727, one of the most popular English cookbooks of the 18th century, and in 1742 the first cookbook printed in America.