Lot 57
  • 57

Carter, Charles.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • The Complete Practical Cook: Or, a new system of the whole art and mystery of cookery. London: W. Meadows, C. Rivington, R. Hett, 1730
  • PAPER
First edition, 4to, title printed in red and black, dedication leaf, 60 engraved plates, all but one showing table settings, 5 folding, eighteenth-century tree calf gilt, roll-tooled border gilt on covers, rebacked

Provenance

Hroar Dege (lot 210)

Literature

Bitting p.77; Cagle 592; Maclean p.23

Catalogue Note

A handsome copy. The author was cook to the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Pontefract, and Lord Cornwallis.