SMITH, E.
The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion.
E. Smith's The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion
London: Printed for J. and J. Pemberton, 1739.
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Item Number: RRB-146410
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Early edition of this book of over six hundred recipes and medicines, with very large additions not in any of the former impressions. Octavo, original full speckled calf, with gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, rebacked, decorated borders stamped in blind, gilt turn-ins, all edges speckled red, engraved frontispiece, illustrated with six folding plates at the rear. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities, slight toning to the endpapers, contemporary ownership inscriptions to the front pastedown and free endpaper, bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown. Contemporary autograph recipe for mead laid in.
Eliza Smith was one of the most popular female cookery book writers of the 18th century. Her book, 'The Compleat Housewife,' went through 18 editions in England, sporting the name "E__ S__" prior to her passing, and "E. Smith" after. It became the first cookery book to be published in the Thirteen Colonies of America, containing the first published recipe for "katchup," and appears to be the earliest written source for bread and butter pudding.
The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion.
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