Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
MOXON, ELIZABETH. English Housewifery. Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts . . . Eleventh Edition, Corrected. Folding letterpress table showing seasonal availability of fish; 6 leaves of woodcut bills of fare, 2 of them folding. viii, 5-203, [1], 33, [17] pages, including final ad leaf. 12mo, modern calf with morocco lettering piece; scattered foxing, some light marginal soiling and dampstaining. Leeds: Griffith Wright for George Copperthwaite, and E. Johnson in London, 1775

Additional Details

First published circa 1741. ESTC locates 4 copies in Great Britain and 2 (Winterthur and Stanford) in the United States. NUC also locates the LC and Vassar copies.