Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 276
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[KING, WILLIAM.] The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With Some Letters to Dr. Lister and Others . . . Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients. [8], 160 pages, including half-title, with pages 66 and 68 blank as issued. 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked, cover edges heavily worn; contents browned; 1/4 morocco slipcase. London: Bernard Lintott, [1708]

Additional Details

first authorized edition of a verse satire of Martin Lister's 1705 edition of Apicius (see lot 178). Cagle 794; Foxon K57; Keynes (Lister) 58; Oxford, page 51.