The housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice ... With a variety of other useful and elegant articles / by Robert Abbot.
- Abbot, Robert, active 1800.
- Date:
- [between 1790 and 1799?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice ... With a variety of other useful and elegant articles / by Robert Abbot. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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