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CRADOCK, (Fanny), Something's Burning, The Autobiography of two cooks, first edition, London, Putnam, 1960, together with Venus in the Kitchen, or Love's Cookery Book, introduction by Graham Greene, first edition, Heinemann Ltd, 1952, also James Beard's Fish Cookery, London, Faber & Faber, In a Persian Kitchen, published in Japan,1960, also Dr. E.A.Maury, Wine is the Best Medicine, French Country Cooking by Elizabeth David, and Alexander Watt, Paris Bistro Cookery, (7)

Cookery Interest:; Late 18th century, dated 1796 Manuscript Recipe Book 160 recipes including Mock Turtle Soup attributeed to Mrs Casters, observations on soups and gravys, onion suce for pork steaks att; Mrs Mellish, maccaroni att; Mrs mellish, Scotch broth, Mrs Hart, Omelette the French way, wash for silk stockings, various recipes for paints and dyes, note of suppliers including Robert Walsh bacon merchant near Richmond, Mr Lambert, Oilman and Olive merchant, foot of Ludgate Hill, Mr Dawkins Teaman, Gracechurch St, London etc (160)front board and front papers detached and spine broken recipes legible

[[Glasse (Hannah)] The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet published... by a Lady, London: W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington et al., 1770, 8vo, marbled calf rebacked, reverse of title with manuscript recipe 'To make Mince Pies'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse (1708–1770) was first published in 1747. It was a bestseller for a century after its first publication, dominating the English-speaking market and making Glasse one of the most famous cookbook authors of her time. The book ran through at least 40 editions, many of which were copied without explicit author consent. It was published in Dublin from 1748, and in America from 1805 [ESTC T63525; Bitting, p.189; Maclean p.60; Oxford p.77]

Manuscript Cookery and Home Remedy Books 18th and 19th Century, to include four books in contemporary vellum of which one a brass clasped account book, 12mo, one volume entitled 'Recipe Book' with marbled paper boards and leather spine, small 4to, another partially disbound volume with Medical notes, 4to (6) Sadly unattributed for the most part, one recipe book is inscribed 'Mary'. The account book, starting in the late 18th Century gives some names, such as William Richardson, Kirkoswald' and 'Dr Cringledyke Estate'.One of the smaller volumes includes a plethora of home remedies, from curing whooping cough, chilblains to the more optimistic 'Recipe for a Cancer or any Tumour'. Other volumes mention 'A good Incarnation salve', remedies for 'hysterical fits' and Dropsie. The largest vellum recipe book, partially completed and indexed to the first few pages shows more useful recipes such as 'Red Quince Marmolet', 'to make Carromel for Fruit', Ratifia Puffs' and 'English Champagne'.The largest of the volumes, labelled 'Extracts' to the spine is alphabetically arranged and partially completed with notes on chemistry.

Cookbooks. A collection of late 19th century Victorian and early 20th century cookery books. The lot to include The Universal Cookery Book, Superior Cookery by Mrs. Black, 365 Vegetarian Dishes, Series VI & VII from the Queen Cookery Books descr. Beaty Pownall & publ. Horace Cox, Household Management by Beckford & Fitzgerald, Beeton's Every Day Gardening, Edinburgh Book of Plain Cookery Recipes, Tried Favourites Cookbook, as well as numerous pamphlet recipe books incl. Meatless Menus by Alfred Arm, The Stork Wartime Cookbook, The ABC of Cookery and Be-Ro Home Recipes. Either in publisher's orig. cloth or paper wraps, generally smart with some wear & use, prior ownership inscriptions. Otherwise a smart and varied collection. 8vo.

First/Second World War Militaria, relating to 905205 Bombardier Henry King, RFA., including brass shoulder titles, Sussex Territorial shoulder title, cap badge, lapel badges, lance corporal's chevron, Local Defence Volunteers armband, photographs, Cookery Certificate, Recipe book etc; Ephemera, relating to 1417489 Warrant Officer I Class Frank Hubert French, Royal Regiment of Artillery, including his Certificate of Service, two Soldier's Service and Pay Books, Qualification certificates, testimonials, Commission to Warrant Officer dated 31st August 1939, pamphlets, a tin tube of photographs etc, he enlisted at Chichester 19th April 1920 and was discharged 12th October 1951; Ephemera, relating to 2591114 Sergeant Donald Woolford, Cheshire Yeomanry, including a folder of copies of family and other letters sent and received 1944/45 including one applying to become official Unit Photographer, two anotated photograph albums illustrating his five years service in the Middle East from 1940-45; also, a First World War photograph album relating to the Middlesex Regiment whilst serving in India 1915-18, and loose photographs showing General de Gaulle, a military parade in Baghdad, RAF official photographs etc (qty)

Cookery. Reynolds (Robert, Cook to His Grace the Duke of Portland), The French and English Professed Cook [...], Containing Upwards of Seven Hundred Practical Receipts [...], To which is added a Short Account of Wines, ?first edition, London: Printed for J. Booth, n.d. [c. 1815-20], xviii, 350, [10]pp (publisher's catalogue), in-text table settings, original publisher's sheep over boards, upper-cover lettered in gilt, chipped and worn, but holding, MS ownership inscription to pastedown, 8vo; Anon, Domestic Economy: A Class-Book for Girls, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1886, original cloth, 8vo; & Medical: Stevenson (William, Physician at Wells), A Successful Method of Treating the Gout by Blistering. With an Introduction, Consisting of Miscellaneous Matter, first edition, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1779, xl, 41-170, [1]pp (errata leaf), ex-library copy, stamps to prelims and final two leaves, later 19th c half-calf over marbled boards, label to upper-cover, 8vo, (3)

A small box of mixed collectables to include Mrs. Beetons book of household management, Mrs. Beetons Cookery book, a jar of mixed marbles and a Sindy doll.

Two Modern Wall Mirrors, carved wooden hay fork, a pair of metal pheasants, cookery book, treen, kitchen roller and base, framed watercolour of farm in rural landscape, signed George Jackson and an 1828 alphabet sampler, worked by Ann Watson Jackson, framed (9)

SELECTION OF COOKERY AND TRAVEL BOOKShardback and paperback, titles include Homecraft Book, Heston Blumenthal at Home, The Curious Bartender, In at the Deep End, various country and city guides, etc., 2 boxes

PENNELL (ELIZABETH), MY COOKERY BOOKS, limited edition, 45/320, mounted plates, ¼ cloth with marbled boards, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1903; NAPIER (MRS ALEXANDER), A NOBLE BOOK OF COOKERY, patterned binding, London, Stock, 1882; URBAIN DUBOIS, COSMOPOLITAN COOKERY, POPULAR STUDIES, later ¾ leather, ‘Presented by the Publishers’ blind stamp to title page, London, Longmans, 1870 (3)

HENDERSON (WILLIAM), THE HOUSEKEEPER’S INSTRUCTOR OR UNIVERSAL COOKERY BOOK, 15th edition, engraved frontis and nine plates, re-backed, London, Stratford, 1809; FARLEY (JOHN), THE LONDON ART OF COOKERY, 3rd edition, portrait frontis, 12 plates, London, Scatcherd, 1785; THE COOK’S ORACLE CONTAINING RECEIPTS FOR PLAIN COOKERY, London, Constable, 1822; HENDERSON (WILLIAM), THE HOUSEKEEPER’S INSTRUCTOR, engraved frontis, 11 plates, no date; KETTILBY (MARK), A COLLECTION OF ABOVE THREE HUNDRED RECEIPS IN COOKERY, 3rd edition, London, Wilkin, 1724; an 18th century book lacking first pages and two 19th century cookery books (8)

Charles Elme Francatelli, "A Plain Cookery Book for The Working Class", London, Routledge, circa 1890s, with one other Victorian book on games and pastimes

Cookery, a collection of sixteen assorted titles, including Richard Warner: 'Antiquitates Culinariae', London, Prospect Books, c.1980, facsimile limited edition (56/400) of the original 1791 edition, 4to, original boards gilt, glassine and acetate dust wrappers; 'Patsy's Reflections Learn to Cook by Pictures', London, Mirror Features, [1949], 192pp, colour illustrated comic book style leaves throughout, oblong 4to, spiral bound original pictorial wraps, plus 'Patsy's Christmas Reflections', L, Mirror Features, [1952],96pp, same format, orig. spiral bound pictorial wraps; Dorothy Allhusen: 'A Book of Scents & Dishes', London, 1927, revised enlarged edition (2nd edition), orig. quarter cloth gilt; 'The British Baker Album of Cake Designs', L, Maclaren & sons, [1924], 96pp + ads at front and end, illustrated throughout, 4to, original cloth; Evelyn Bach: 'Recipes from Vienna', L, Cobden Sanderson, 1933, printed at the Shenval Press, 133pp, spiral bound orig. pictorial card covers; 'The Corner Cupboard A Family Repository', L, Houlston & Wright, 1858, 10th thou., orig. cloth gilt; Mrs. R. Calder Marshall; Margaret Bryant: 'The Anglo-Chinese Cook Book', [nd], c.1916, 2nd edition, volume I (English), xxix,[2],327,[1]pp, b/w plates, original cloth; H.G. Harris & S.P. Borella: 'All About Ices, Jellies, Creams, & Conserves', L, Maclaren & sons, [1926], ex library, 4to, original cloth; E,J. Kollist:' French Pastry, Confectionery and Sweets', 1936, 2nd edition, frontis + numerous b/w plates, original cloth gilt; plus 6 others similar (16)

Cookery, eight assorted titles, including William Salmon: 'The Family Dictionary: or, Houshold Companion. Containing Cookery...Pastry...Confects...Potable Liquors...Perfuming...Husbandry...Preparations Galenick and Chymick...', London, A. Rhodes, 1710, 4th edition, [16],560pp, rebound cloth gilt; Hannah Glasse: 'The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy', L, 1803, new edition, xl,419pp, final page of index supplied in facsimile, rebound quarter calf gilt; Elizabeth Raffald: 'The Experienced English Housekeeper', L, 1786, 10th edition, engraved portrait frontis + 3 folding engraved plates complete, some dampstaining affecting lower edges of early leaves, rebound cloth gilt; W.A. Henderson; Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie: 'The Housekeeper's Instructor; Or, Universal Family-Cook', L. W. Lewis, [1823], 17th edition, engraved portrait frontis + 11 engraved plates (of which 2 folding, the final folding plate with part loss), rebound half calf gilt; Elizabeth Hammond: 'Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book', L, Dean & Munday, c.1835, 7th edition, engraved frontis, added engraved title + 4 engraved plates, 12mo, rebound quarter calf gilt; Mrs Dalgairns: 'The Practice of Cookery', Edinburgh, 1835, 5th edition, 468pp, old half calf gilt; A. Escoffier: 'A Guide to Modern Cookery', L, Heinemann, 1913, new & revised edition (5th printing overall), portrait frontis, original cloth gilt (worn); plus 1 other (8)

A GROUP OF CERAMICS, GLASS AND SUNDRY ITEMS, to include an Indian carved wooden box, the interior carved with the insignia of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, and inscribed 'All My Love, Dan, India 1944', approximate size 27cm x 16.5cm x 8cm, together with a similar carved wooden box and an embroidered example, a signed copy of The Duchess of Devonshire's Chatsworth Cookery Book, a boxed Arcoroc Marguerite plate set, an eighteen piece unmarked Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee coffee set, Tuscan 'Wild Strawberry' tea ware, a crystal jug, a Coalport milk jug (hairlines to base), a Spode Fleur de Lys Gold covered sugar bowl, a Wedgwood Kutani Crane dinner plate, a Kit Vision 7'' digital photograph frame (untested), etc (qty) (Condition Report: most pieces appear ok, sd and as stated in description, signs of light use)

A quantity of cookery books to include: Seafood, The Soup Bible, The Poachers Cook Book, etc.

Vintage Westmorland cookery book dated 1939, vintage postcards - Muncaster Castle, framed Victorian portrait miniature, metal tatting hooks etc

CROXALL (S.) The Fables of Aesop, 12mo, folding frontlist, text illus., clo., Halifax, 1860; Book of Common Prayer, 24mo, contemp. morocco gilt, Oxford, 1825; The New Practical Gardener, 4to, col. plates, half calf (worn), L., ca. 1875; Buckmaster's Cookery, L., ca. 1874 (4).

A cloth bound volume of Mrs Beaton's cookery book published 1892.

Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, 125th thousand edition, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [circa 1867], chromolithograph frontispiece and plates, wood-engraved illustrations, original red quarter sheep, gilt-blocked decoration to spine, light wear mostly at head of spine, extremities rubbed, 8vo, together with:Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, new edition, revised and corrected, 255 thou. edition, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [1869], chromolithograph frontispiece and plates, wood-engraved illustrations, 19th-century maroon quarter sheep, joints cracked and worn at head of spine, 8vo,Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, new edition, revised and corrected, 660 thou. edition, London: Ward, Lock & Co., [1869], folding chromolithograph frontispiece and plates, wood-engraved illustrations and plates, one text leaf detached and frayed, rear free endpaper torn, original maroon quarter sheep, gilt-blocked decoration to spine, joints split, spine cracked and worn, 8vo, plus three other later Beeton editions, plus an incomplete copy of Markham (Gervase). The English House-Wife containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a Compleat Woman: As her Skill in Physick, Chirurgery, Cookery, Extraction of Oyles, Banqueting stuff, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving of all sorts of Wines, conceited Secrets, Distillations, Perfumes, ordering of Wool..., of Brewing, Baking, and all other things belonging to an Houshold...., 8th edition, London: printed by J. Streater for George Sawbridge, 1668, title present (detached and closed tears at gutter), lacking other preliminary leaves and all text before p.113 (3R1), disbound 4to QTY: (7)

Sammlung: von 10 Kochbüchern, versch. Formate u. Einbde. ╔Enthält:╗ Naumann,L. Systematik der Kochkunst. 3. Aufl. Drsdn., Schönfeld 1900. - Amerlan,F. Am Herd des Hauses. (2. Aufl.). Stettin, Niekammer (ca. 1905). - Senn,C.H. The New Century Cookery Book. London, Spottiswoode 1901. - Böttcher,C. Kraft und Stoff ... 2. Aufl. Hbg. u.a., Richter 1863. - Universal-Lexikon der Kochkunst. 2 Bde. Lpz., Weber 1878. 2 Karten in Kopie. - Buchmeier,M. Großes Praktisches Kochbuch... 7. verm. Aufl. Regensburg, Habbel (um 1910). - König,H. Illustr. Deutsches Kochbuch... 5. Aufl. Hannover, Teller 1879. - Seleskowitz,L. Wiener Kochbuch. 15. Aufl. Wien (ca. 1914). - Oppre,A. Das Neue Kochbuch... Augsburg, Kranzfelder 1879. - Versch. starke Gebrauchsspuren.

A 19th century copy of 'Beeton's Book of Needlework, Illustrated by Many Engravings and Folding Plates, published by Ward, Lock & Co Ltd, Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E. C. London, New York and Melbourne, with gilt tooled blue cloth boards, 8vo, not dated, but likely circa 1870, together with various other books comprising an 1865 copy of 'Domestic Cookery by Mrs Rundel', published by Halifax, Milner and Sowerby, a pocket edition of 'Selections from Keats', a miniature edition of 'The Lady of The Lake', by Sir Walter Scott, 'Name This Flower', by Gaston Bonnier, 1936 edition and 'Familiar Wild Flowers', by Edward Hulme, First Series with Colour Plates, published by Cassell and Company Ltd, London, Paris and Melbourne.

Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- Myddelton (Mrs) [Collection of recipes], Elizabeth David's copy with her bookplate on front pastedown, manuscript, in several hands, c. 145pp. excluding blanks, 1p. with newspaper cuttings of recipes, 1p. with printed and manuscript label of "Insley Powell Cheese and Provision Merchant... R.B . Myddelton with R.M. Dymocks kind regards of Castle Street, Shrewsbury," several manuscript recipes loosely inserted, label: "Mrs Myddelton's Book" on front pastedown, original half calf, slightly rubbed, later rebacked, later label on spine, sm. 4to (206 x 166mm.), dated in text 1863. *** Recipes including: "Pig Sauce"; "A very good Plum pudding"; "Beautiful Ginger Beer"; "French Bread"; "Apple Pudding"; "From Caroline. Stilton Cheese. Mrs Wilsford"; "The Devils Pot - Mrs Mather... To Two quarts of good Ale..."; "Gloucester Cheese"; "Palestine Soup"; "From the head Gardener at Trentham [Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire]"; "How to Stop Bleeding"; "For the Hooping Cough"; "For Neuralgia - fm. Miss E. Williams - Bodelwyddan [north Wales]"; "Cure for Hydrophobia - Lady Vavasour" etc.

Mrs Beeton's Household Management inscribed 1944 and Royal cookery Book

Mrs Beetons Household Management, a Complete Cookery Book ..., new edition, Ward Locke & Co, colour frontis, colour plates and other illustrations throughout, advertisements, half leather, original d-w, glassine cover (condition very good) 

Cookery - "The Illustrated London Cookery Book ...", by Frederick Bishop, London, 227 The Strand 1852, illustrations, recipes, some foxing, ep missing, original publishers blindstamped and gilt decorated cloth, front board detaching from the backstrip Laverty, Maura "Kind Cooking ...", decorations by Louis Le Brocquy, published by The Kerryman for Maura Laverty Miscellanies, photographic illustrations, boards which have seen some damp, "Chambers Cookery for Young Housewives" Pepper, Beverly "Pot Luck Cookery", reprint, "The Savoy Cocktail Book", Chancellor Press, laminated boards Harben, Philip "Cooking", Penguin 1962 and "Here's How ...", issued by the Victoria Wine Company Limited, limp covers  Boulstin, X. Marcel and Hill, Jason "Herbs, Salads and Seasonings", William Heinemann 1930, illustrations by Cedric Morris, library stamps (8) 

Four vintage books including two Mrs Beetons cookery books, The Book of Household Management (AF) and The Works of William Paley, D.D. With A Life by Alexander Chalmers Esq.

A Collection of odds; George Betjemann & Sons Wedgwood and Ormolu lid, Collection of Underwood & Underwood Slides, Folk art box made from cigarette roll ups, Chinese hardwood and stone hand painted box and The Nautical Cookery Book by T.F. Adkins London.

Cookery. Three titles: Heath, Ambrose - The Country Life Cookery Book. London: Country Life Ltd. 1937, 1st edition. Wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. Original cloth.; Heath, Ambrose - Good Food Month by Month Recipes. London: Faber and Faber, 1934, 2nd impression. Decorated by Edward Bawden. Original cloth, in dust jacket (worn); and one other. (3)

Large accumulation of UK and overseas mainly used postage stamps. Large numbers of UK low face value stamps from QV 1d reds onwards to George VI. Together with a tired copy of Mrs Beetons cookery book.

Three vintage Cookery books, "Cooking In Wartime" by Elizabeth Craig, "The ABC Of Cookery-Ministry of Food 1945", and "Home Pride" cookery book by Catherine Ives (well used)

A box of miscellaneous works to include a Constance Spry Cookery book, other Cookery books, Autobiographies, Travel Works etc.

One box of cook books to including: Mrs Beeton's family Cookery, The Nordic Cook Book, I know how to Cook, etc.

Eric Morecambe's copy of Who's Who 1974, inscribed to Eric, loosely-inserted typed letter from publisher (recording Eric's entry in the book); Victorian England as seen by Punch, signed for Eric by Anne de Courcy, Bonnie Angelo, Chapman Pincher, Edward Heath, and many others; Good Housekeeping's Picture Cookery, inscribed by Eric Morecambe to wife Joan, "To Joan, 'The Way to a Man's Heart'!!! Love, Eric, 1952"; Invest One Hundred Pounds, featuring humorous inscription to Eric from Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson, 1962. Condition varied, sold with all faults (4) ❧ This is from Eric Morecambe’s private study at his home in Harpenden

Joan & Eric Morecambe's book collection, some signed & inscribed to Eric by the authors, including An Autobiography, signed by Liberace; This One's On Me, signed by Jimmy Greaves; The Royal Hospital of Saint Bartholomew's, signed by the staff; Shrimpy, signed by Shane Acton; Kicked Into Touch, signed by Fred Eyre; Thalidomide, signed by David Mason; The Goalscorers, signed by Tony Pawson, plus several signed & inscribed to Joan, including My Life Story, by Wendy Richard, and Nearly Famous, by Bob "The Cat" Bevan, a proof copy of Mog, by Peter Tinniswood (unsigned but with typed letter to EM from publisher), together with a quantity of unsigned books on furniture, antiques, art, cookery, and other subjects, the whole in six cartons (6) ❧ This is from Eric Morecambe’s private study at his home in Harpenden

A box of vintage books including Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management (colour cookery plates), The Scots Worthies, Records of Inverness etc. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household management is in fair condition. Some foxing to the edges of pages. There is a small tear at the top of the spine approx 1 inch long, above the 'rs' in 'Mrs'. There is a water mark on the front and rear covers and on the inside of these covers. In the Preface there is a note dated November 1888, and on the frontespiece is marked Seven Hundredth Thousand.

A selection of Victorian style copper jelly moulds, each of circular form with varied decoration, the largest 24cms diameter; together with two antique irons, each with turned wooden handles; and a vintage 'The Kenya Settler's Cookery Book and Household Guide'.

Assorted china including boxed Wedgwood dessert plate, R. Worcester dessert plate, Delft plate, Leeds Pottery dish, KPM Bavaria vase, Wedgwood vase, Minton 3-tier cakestand, Nancy Overend 'Lobbydale' bowl and Mrs. Beeton's Family Cookery book

Quantity of books, relating to fishing and hunting, together with a number of 19th century library books, titles include: Chesterfield's Letters, Macaulay's History of England, bound copies of The Sphere illustrated newspaper for the year 1916 (very good condition), 1st edition British Mammals by L. Harrison Matthews 1952, Wild Lone The Story of a Pytchley Fox 'BB'; The Badmington Library of Sports and Pastimes Sea fishing nr 99/250 copies, White-Ear and Peter The Story of a Fox and a Fox Terrier illustrated by Cecil Aldin, The New Forest described by Elizabeth Godfrey, Bird-Life of The Seasons W. Percival Westell, The New Forest foreword by the Earl of Radnor, Butterflies by E.B Ford; Living with Butterflies L. Hugh Newman, Fur, Feather and Fin Series The Fox; Beeton's Book of Garden Management circa 1880, Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book New Edition, British Wild Flowers J.E Sowerby & C.P Johnson, Red Fox by Charles G.D Roberts, Wild Animals I have Known by Ernet Thompson Seton; In Flanders Field by Leon Wolff 1917 Campaign, Birds & Men by E.M Nicholson, The Badmington Library 'Salmon & Trout' amongst others. 

Vintage recipe and cookery books and a 19th Century hand-written book of recipes

Three framed and glazed colour plate illustrations from Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book - 15.5 x 9.8cm, the gilt frames (35 x 28cm).

THREE EARLY 20TH CENTURY COOKERY BOOKSconsisting of Mrs Beatons Household Management, Ward Lock and Co; Mrs A.B Marshall's Cookery book, Simpson, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co limited; and Recipes for you, Mary MaeKirdy, Collins (3)

Selection of vintage cookery books incl. Rochfort (Louisa), The St James's Cookery Book, 1894, Chapman and Hall; Barnett (Annie), The Penlee Recipe Book (presentation copy), 1915, G. Bell and Sons; Beeton (Isabella), The Book of Household Management, 1869, Ward Lock and Co etc.

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, A Guide to Cookery in all Branches, New Edition, Ward, Lock, & Co., Limited, London etc, 1915

[GLASSE, Hannah]. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, A New Edition, 8vo, [40], 1-419 pp., internally good with intermittent spotting, front blank inscribed "Mary Lowe, given by her affectionate mother H. Stoppard, December 1856", rebound, London: J. Johnson, H. L. Gardner, F. & C. Rivington, et al., 1803 ❧ A late-Georgian edition of the most renowned English cookery book of the eighteenth century

[Glasse (Hannah)] The Art of Cookery, made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published, second edition, 5pp. list of subscribers, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked in modern pale calf, gilt, in compartments and with a red leather label, covers rubbed and little scuffed, [Bitting p.187; Cagle 696; Maclean pp.59-61; Oxford pp.76-77 (note); Simon BG 762], 8vo, Printed for the Author, and Sold at Mrs. Wharton's Toy-Shop... at Mrs Ashburn's China-Shop, the Corner of Fleet-Ditch...and at most Market-Towns in England, 1747. *** A very good copy of the rare second edition, which was published in the same year as the rare first edition. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy was the best-selling cookery book of the 18th century, with copies being owned by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington. 

Elizabeth David's copies.- Hammond (Elizabeth) Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book, fifth edition, Elizabeth David's copy, with her bookplate and a sheet of autograph notes loosely inserted,  improved, engraved frontispiece depicting a kitchen scene, additional vignette title depicting a rural scene and 4 plates of carving, trussing, and place setting, spotted and stained, lightly browned, original printed boards, rebacked in modern buckram, gilt, corners worn, boards, soiled / stained, [cf. Bitting pp.211-212; Cagle 720; Oxford 143-144 & Simon BG 811], Dean & Munday, [?c.1824]; and 8 others Cookery or related (most 19th century) from the library of Elizabeth David, with her autograph notes occasionally loosely inserted, v.s. (9)

Russian.- Petit (Alphonse) Traité de la Cuisine Russe. Suivi d'un vocabulaire des mots les plus usites (tels qu'ils se prononcent en russe) concernant les provisions de bouche, les termes culinaires techniques, les noms des ustensiles et accessoires de cuisine, etc., second edition, half-title, 2 advertisement ff. at end for goods including caviar and vodkas, cookery shop ink stamp to foot of title, occasional spotting, mostly lightly browned throughout, contemporary textured buckram-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, stained, rubbed and marked, 8vo, Dupont, [1889 or 1890]. *** Scarce. The first edition of 1860 was the first French book on Russian cuisine. The author was for 12 years chef to Russian Minister of Justice Count Viktor Panin. Includes an extensive French-Russian vocabulary at end. 

May (Robert) The Accomplisht cook, or The art & mystery of cookery, fifth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding woodcut plates (of 4), woodcut illustrations in text, including pies, 9pp. advertisements at end, title little chipped at upper margin and with small hole at foot affecting printed date, plate at p.224 section torn away at fold but present (with minor loss) and with repaired tear within image (without loss), plate at p.240 with repaired tear without loss, both plates with short splits to folds and short tears, some spotting or foxing and light staining, a few short tears, lightly browned, antique style speckled panelled calf, spine in compartments and with light brown morocco label, spine faded, little marked, [Bitting p.318; Cagle 868 (lacking plates); Oxford pp.29-30 (note); Simon BG 1029 (note); Wing M1394], 8vo, Printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Bear and Star in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1685. *** Rare edition at auction, especially with any plates present. We trace only one copy in the last few decades which contained all four plates, and of the few copies offered in the same period most lack all plates. May (1588-1664) trained in France and served his apprenticeship in London working for Arthur Hollinsworth, cook to the Grocer's Hall and Star Chamber. He later worked under his father at Ascott Park and for Sir Anthony Browne at Cowdray House. Provenance: 'Hanah [sic] Tylden, her Book, 1699' (ink inscription to front free endpaper); 'S.S. Banks, 1815' (ink inscription to head of C1). 

Europe.- Dining etiquette & carving.- Gids voor de Eetzaal. Benevens de Kunst van Voorsnijden, wood-engraved illustrations, some water-staining, original yellow printed wrappers, upper joint split at ends, G.B. van Goor, [c.1880] § Davis (Irving) A Catalan Cookery Book. A Collection of impossible recipes, one of 150 copies in an edition of 165 copies, signed by the artist and publisher, Elizabeth David's copy with her bookplate and original invoice from Janet Clarke loosely inserted, 11 engraved plates / illustrations by Nicole, text and plates loose as issued in original printed wrappers, original cloth chemise and slip-case, spine titled in red, this rubbed, lightly soiled, Paris, Lucien Scheler, 1969 § Orga (Irfan) Cooking with yoghurt, original boards, tape staining, dust-jacket, tape staining to edges of inner flaps, Andre Deutsch, 1960; and a quantity of others, European food & drink, v.s. (Qty.)

Salmon (William) The Family dictionary: or, Houshold companion, fourth edition, double column, half-title, typed note 'Terms of a carver' mounted on rear inside cover, half-title strengthened at inner gutter and with small repair to upper blank corner, occasional worming within text, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, lacking rear endpapers, small yellow book label of John Lyle (cookery bookseller and collector) to front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked in modern light tan calf in compartments and with antique style morocco label, corners repaired, a little spotting, rubbed and scuffed, [Cagle 982; Maclean pp.127-128; Oxford pp.45-46; Simon BG 1350], Printed for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the Corner of Bride Lane, in Fleet-Street, 1710 § Henderson (William Augustus) The Housekeeper's instructor; or, Universal family cook, eighth edition, engraved frontispiece, 7 plates of carving and 4 bills of fare (of which 2 folding), 4pp. list of subscribers at end, some spotting or light foxing, lightly browned, antique style half calf, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, spine faded, [Bitting p.224 (note); Cagle 741; Maclean pp.68-69; Oxford pp.133-134; Simon BG 832 (note)], Printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, [c.1800]; and 3 others, including a duplicate of first mentioned (not collated), and a defective copy of Kidder, v.s. (5) 

Schraemli copy.- Verral (William ) A Complete system of cookery. In which is set forth, A Variety of genuine receipts, collected from several Years Experience under the celebrated Mr. de St. Clouet, sometime since Cook to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, first edition, first and last ff. blank, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and with antique style red morocco label, spine faded and with a little staining, lower corners repaired, rubbed, [Bitting p.477; Cagle 1043; Maclean p.147; Oxford p.89; Simon BG 1553; Vicaire 859], 8vo, Printed for the author, and sold by him; as also by Edward Verral Bookseller, in Lewes: and by John Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1759. *** Scarce first edition, here with an excellent provenance. The author describes himself as 'Master of the White-Hart Inn in Lewes, Sussex'.Provenance: Harry Schraemli, sold Sotheby's, Tuesday, 23rd February, 1971, lot 490, buyer Bremen for £75 (bookplate to front pastedown); gifted to Jill Norman by Elizabeth David (her autograph gift card loosely inserted); Jill Norman (book label to front free endpaper). 

Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- Myddelton (Mrs) [Collection of recipes], Elizabeth David's copy with her bookplate on front pastedown, manuscript, in several hands, c. 145pp. excluding blanks, 1p. with newspaper cuttings of recipes, 1p. with printed and manuscript label of "Insley Powell Cheese and Provision Merchant... R.B . Myddelton with R.M. Dymocks kind regards of Castle Street, Shrewsbury," several manuscript recipes loosely inserted, label: "Mrs Myddelton's Book" on front pastedown, original half calf, slightly rubbed, later rebacked, later label on spine, sm. 4to (206 x 166mm.), dated in text 1863. *** Recipes including: "Pig Sauce"; "A very good Plum pudding"; "Beautiful Ginger Beer"; "French Bread"; "Apple Pudding"; "From Caroline. Stilton Cheese. Mrs Wilsford"; "The Devils Pot - Mrs Mather... To Two quarts of good Ale..."; "Gloucester Cheese"; "Palestine Soup"; "From the head Gardener at Trentham [Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire]"; "How to Stop Bleeding"; "For the Hooping Cough"; "For Neuralgia - fm. Miss E. Williams - Bodelwyddan [north Wales]"; "Cure for Hydrophobia - Lady Vavasour" etc.

Americas.- DeLoup (Maximilian) The American Salad Book, Elizabeth David's copy with bookplate, hinges weak, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a couple of small stains, little rubbed, New York, George R. Knapp, 1899 § The Ladies of the Presbyterian Church Paris, KY, editors. Housekeeping in the Blue Grass, occasional spotting, lightly browned, original pictorial cloth, some staining, little rubbed, Cincinnati, Robert Clarke Company, 1905 § Frederick (J. George) Pennsylvania Dutch Cookery, reprint, original pictorial boards, the odd spot, Louisville, 1966; and a quantity of others, 20th & 21st century food & drink of the Americas, mostly Northern, v.s. (Qty.)

Australian.- Maclurcan (Mrs. H.) Mrs. Maclurcan's Cookery Book, second edition, errata-slip tipped-in start, numerous advertisements, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, modern buckram, spine gilt and with leather label, Townsville, T. Willmett & Son, 1898; and another, Australian, 8vo (2)

Beeton (Mrs. Isabella) The Book of Household Management, first edition in book form, second issue (with Strand address, and first line of errata corrected to 'Page 657'), colour-printed wood-engraved additional pictorial title and 12 chromolithographed plates, lacking frontispiece, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, original cloth-backed calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt and blind-stamped decorative backstrip, this with closed tear at head, corners worn, rubbed and marked, [Bitting p.32; Simon BG 186; cf. Cagle 561], [Spottiswoode & Co. for] S.O. Beeton, 1861; and 4 others, Beeton, including another defective copy of first mentioned, v.s. (5) sold not subject to return.  *** 'This is one of the earliest cookery books using colored illustrations' (Bitting) .

Manuscript.- Cookery.- A booke of Confectionary set downe for Preserveinge dryinge or Candyinge of any sortes of plomes ore of frutes whatsoever and for makinge of all Sortes of dryed pastes or any other kind of Sugar woorkes be Lening to ye Arte of a Confectionary or Comfitt maker as ye Recetes in ye Booke followinge will derecte you [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands, 104pp. excluding blanks, a few reverse entries, ruled throughout, f. excised at beginning, some ink stains, slightly browned, some later pencil titles and page numbers, ownership signatures of "Eliz Strangways" and in the same hand with probably her married name "Eliz Boynton Book", "Cath Caylery", "Judith Robinson" and "Agnes Legard" on last f., original vellum, rubbed, soiled and marked, lacks lower cover, further bound in 20th century rexine with 1920s ownership letterhead of Agnes Phoebe Legard on upper cover recording the descent of ownership of the manuscript, sm. 4to (189 x 155mm.), n.d. [c. 1740]. *** With several references to the "duchess" and one to the Duchess of Buckingham, possibly a reference to Mary Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham who died in 1704, but more probably, Lady Catherine Sheffield (c. 1681-1743), natural daughter of James II, married to John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648-1721). Recipes including: "how to make Byskitt"; "ye Lade Cotler's reset to make common wine red or white or gousbery or rasbery wine"; "to make Bisketelles ye duchess"; "to make red marmelate of quinches"; "to candy margerum"; "Cosin Edmons way to drie all sorts of plomes"; "how to preserve Apricocks my cosn marys way"; "To preserve Corans or Barberryes ye Duchess of B"; "to preserve damsons ye Dchs way"; "ye Cleare Rock candye ye Duchs of Buckingham way" etc. 

[?Hughson (David)] The Family receipt-book; or, Universal repository of useful knowledge and experience in all the various branches of domestic oeconomy, ?first edition, double column, 20pp. index bound at end, 6K1&2 trimmed (?from another copy), e1 of index upper corner torn, with loss of the odd letter recto, occasional mostly marginal biro markings, a few marginal tears with loss (not affecting text), occasional spotting or staining, contemporary tree calf, rebacked in modern lighter calf gilt in compartments and with black leather label, joints starting, but holding firm, corners repaired, some chipping to upper cover, rubbed and marked, [Bitting p.550; Cagle 674; cf. Cagle 766 & Oxford p.144-145], Printed for the Editors, and published by Oddy and Co. 27, Oxford Street, [c.1810] § Kitchiner (William) The Art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, etc., sixth edition, occasional spotting lightly browned, contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with black morocco label, corners worn, rubbed, [Simon BG 912], printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1828; and c.40 others, 19th century Cookery (some defective), including Acton, Francatelli, Rundell, Urbain-Dubois, and De Salis, v.s. (c.42) sold not subject to return.  *** The first mentioned includes an entry on Ortolans (pp.96-97), the French bird delicacy eaten with a towel over ones head so as to supposedly shield your God's eyes from such a decadent act. 

Jewish.- Elizabeth David's copies.- Atrutel (Mrs. J. [Estella]) An Easy and Economical Book of Jewish Cookery, upon Strictly Orthodox Principles, second edition, advertisements to endpapers and pastedowns, a few sigs. loose or working loose, some spotting, lightly browned, original terracotta blind-stamped and gilt cloth, upper cover detached, spine ends and corners little worn, lightly stained, rubbed and marked, P. Vallentine, 1880 § Pomiane (Édouard de) Cuisine Juive Ghettos modernes, first edition, half-title, printer's f. at end, a few instances of marginal tears from careless opening, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, original printed wrappers, spine with small contemporary blank label, creased and with ends little worn, but holding firm, some light staining, lightly browned, [Bitting p.375; Oberlé Fastes 295], Paris, Albin Michel, [1929], Elizabeth David's copies, with her bookplate; and another, Jewish Cookery (not from the library of ED), v.s. (3) *** I: The second edition of Atrutel is rare in commerce. She was cook to Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, to whom she dedicates the book. There are over 500 recipes, which are drawn from all over Europe. II: Pomiane was a French scientist, radio broadcaster and food writer.