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The Complete Family-Piece: and Country Gentleman and Farmer's Best Guide

Name: The Complete Family-Piece: and Country Gentleman and Farmer's Best Guide
Author: Anon

Book Description

Gilly Lehmann describes this book as 'a manual for the rising middle-class who were hoping to join the ranks of county society. The various chapters offer advice to husband and wife, bringing together several books in one volume, a point stressed in the preface' on p. iv. She also says that almost all the cookery and confectionery recipes come from E Smith's 'The Compleat Housewife'. (LEHMANN Gilly, The British Housewife, Prospect Books 2003, p. 104)

Dealer Notes

Maclean p. 33, Bitting p. 534, Vicaire p. 199, Oxford p. 68

Author Anon

Date 1737, Second edition, improved

Binding Contemporary calf, Cambridge style; 17.5cm

Publisher A Bettesworth et al., London

Condition Worn, front hinge repaired, mod calf and gilt title to spine; LACKING front endpaper; a little worming, tanning, spotting, damp-staining, occasional notes and marks, p433 repaired

Pages xii, 526, [60]

Price: £350.00

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