JANET
CLARKE
Specialist in Gastronomy
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ATKYNS, Arabella. (pseud.) The Family
Magazine: In Two Parts. Part I. Containing Useful Directions in all
the Branches of Cookery. Part II. Containing A Compendious Body of Physick;
1741. [9447] London, J. Osborn, 1741. 8vo. neatly recased original
full calf binding, original backstsrip relaid with new red morocco title
label, xiv, title, 123, (iii), title, 324pp. some worming to bottom
margin of the first part of the volume not affecting text, worming to
the second part at right hand margin affecting text to a very small
degree in places else a very clean tight copy embellished with six little
woodcuts. B.550. M.49. O.71. S.658. The cookery section contains lengthy
instructions on the purchase of all sorts of provisions and how to store
them followed by several hundred receipts in cookery, pastry, pickling,
confectionary (sic), distilling, brewing, cosmeticks, &c. together
with the art of making English wines contains much that could be used
today with little alteration. The second part being a compendious body
of physick succinctly treating all the diseases and accidents incident
of men, women and children is better read and not practised. £650.00 |