LAMB PATRICK Royal Cookery; or the Complete Court Cook 171

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LAMB, PATRICK. Royal Cookery; or, the Complete Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts In all the particular Branches of Cookery, Now in Use in the Queen's Palaces. 35 engraved plates showing bills of fare (2 of them with later owner's notes on verso regarding the seating arrangement of guests at royal dinners in the early 1800s). [16], 127, [17] pages, including half-title and 2 ad leaves at end. 8vo, contemporary red morocco lavishly gilt-tooled to center-and-corner design, rebacked retaining original backstrip; some light marginal toning, ink stain in upper inner corner of final ad leaf. Unidentified 19th-century armorial bookplate; modern bookplate of Kenneth Garth Huston. London: Abel Roper & John Morphew, 1710

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first edition; issue with Roper/Morphew imprint. Having begun to work in the royal household as a child, Lamb (circa 1650-1708/9) advanced through positions of increasing responsibility to become royal cook in 1683, a post he held until his death. "His services . . . encompassed the provision of prepared dishes for daily and extraordinary consumption by the monarch and his guests at table . . . Lamb's culinary skills were most effectively demonstrated in extraordinary events . . . Most spectacular of all were his arrangements for the coronation feasts of James II in 1685, William and Mary in 1689, and Anne in 1702 . . . These and other junkets are evoked in the text of Royal Cookery, published posthumously . . . The text incorporated recipes for elaborate dishes alongside engravings of lavish table layouts for occasions such as royal suppers" (ODNB). Bitting, page 271; Cagle 809; Oxford, page 52.