The compleat housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles ... to which is added a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines ... / by E-----S----- [i.e. Eliza Smith].

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The compleat housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles ... to which is added a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines ... / by E-----S----- [i.e. Eliza Smith]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for J. Pemberton, 1730.

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8 unnumbered leaves, 332, xv pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of folded plates : diagrams ; (8vo)

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4th ed.

Notes

The author has been identified as Eliza or Elizabeth Smith. cf. Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p.134; Oxford, A. English cookery books, Index (in text, E. Smith).
Copy 1. Ownership inscription and annotations of Margrete Davies dated May 20 1774 on recto of front board. Ownership inscription of Margrete Davies also on final leaf with annotations dated 177[9?].

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ESTC T167156

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