£250
Cookery. Raffald (Elizabeth), The Experienced English Housekeeper, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. [...], tenth edition, London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1786, engraved portrait frontispiece (the verso of which with contemporary manuscript recipes), pp: [iv], iii, [1], 384, [2] (index; Cc only, lacking the remainder and the adverts), 3 engraved folding plates, some stains and toning throughout, 20th century in-keeping quarter-calf over marbled boards by Bell Golding of Cambridge & London, their ticket to recto pastedown, 8vo, [&] Simpson (John, Late Cook to the Most Noble Marquis of Buckingham, and Present Maître d'Hôtel to the Right Honourable Lord Berwick), A Complete System of Cookery, on a Plan Entirely New [...], second edition, London: Printed for W. Stewart, (Opposite Albany) Piccadilly, n.d. [1807], pp: xvi, 696, the last three or four gatherings with stained fore-margins, but not affecting the text, 20th century in-keeping three-quarter calf over marbled boards, all edges uncut, 8vo, (2).
Provenance: 2nd: 1) Elizabeth Hill/Kiplin/Sep: 10th 1808; ink MS inscription to ffep; 2) Anne Clifford/23 May 1828; ditto. 3) Ann Snow/1st Jan:y 1854; ditto.
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