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The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion

Name: The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion
Author: Smith, Eliza

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[16], 348, six folding plates, xv, [1], 4pp of adverts. Fifth edition, first edition where surname of author is mentioned. Includes 2p of manuscript recipes. Endpaper loose, closed tears to 5 oof the folding plates, repaired with tape. Bound in panelled calf, some abrasions. Pages generally very clean, occasional mark from use. First cookery book published in the 13 states of America and first bestseller written by a woman. Bookplate of Jill Norman, award winning writer and editor on food and drink, and literary executor of Elizabeth David

Author Smith, Eliza

Date 1732

Binding Full leather

Publisher Printed for J. Pemberton, London

Condition Good/very good

Pages 348

Price: £450.00

Offered by Ian Reilly Books

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