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(COOKERY.) The Lady's Companion. Containing upwards of Three Thousand Different Receipts in every Kind of Cookery,and those the Best and Most Fashionable; being, Four Times the Quantity of any Book of this Sort. Engraved frontispiece depicting kitchen scene; 8 engraved plates on 4 folding leaves. [2], 413, [17]; [2], 389, 400-414, [18] pages. 2 volumes. 12mo, 171x100 mm, modern 1/2 morocco; 2 small wormholes through opening leaves in Volume 2 not impairing legibility, clean tear across second leaf of engravings, contents otherwise generally clean. London: J. Hodges and R. Baldwin, 1753
Sixth edition of one of the largest recipe collections yet published in English, which originally appeared in 1737 as The Whole Duty of a Woman. Cagle 806.
