The lady's assistant in the oeconomy of the table : a collection of scarce and valuable receipts, taken from the manuscripts of divers persons of the most refin'd taste and greatest judgment in the arts of cookery, preserving, &c. : to which is added, the author's own method of pickling, together with directions for making several sorts of wines, mead, sherbet, punch, &c. after the most approved manner : also directions for marketing, instructions for carving, bills of fare for every month in the year, &c. : concluding with many excellent prescriptions, of singular efficacy in most distempers incident to the human body / originally published, by the late Mrs. Anne Battam.

Second edition of this study of the kitchen and the running of a household. The first edition was published in 1750 under the title A collection of scarce and valueable receipts.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Battam, Anne, -approximately 1755 (Author)
Corporate Author: R. and J. Dodsley (Bookseller)
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, 1759.
Edition:The second edition, with near one hundred and fifty original receipts, from several ladies, never before published.
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Ownership and Custodial History:
Inscription in an early hand on front paste-down: "Mrs Gladwish"; bookseller's description, by Ben Kinmont, Bookseller, Sebastopol, California, available in MSS 466, Box 7, Folder 158.
Binding Information:
In contemporary mottled calf; spine and outer edges of boards tooled in gilt; all edges speckled red.
Physical Description:12 unnumbered pages, 300 pages ; 17 cm
Format: Book

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