£100
Cookery. La Chapelle (Vincent, Late Chief Cook to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield: And now Chief Cook to his Highness the Prince of Orange), The Modern Cook, volume III only (of 3, but complete in intself), second edition, London: Thomas Osborne, 1736, pp: [xxvi], 307, 38, [2], 5 folding tables only (each with varying degrees of stable tears around the opening fold), stains to the last three or four gatherings, not affecting legibility of text, some creases and marginal chipping, rebacked 19th century calf boards, 8vo, [&] Moxon (Elizabeth), English Housewifery. Exemplified In above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts [...], with an Appendix, tenth edition, [& issued with] English Housewifery improved; or, A Supplement to Moxon's Cookery [...], third edition, two parts in one, Leeds: Printed by Griffith Wright: For George Copperthwaite, 1769, separate title-pages, text closes on [K12], unexamined prior but seemingly a respectable copy, with some tears, creases and chipping, toning, ink stains, etc., throughout, rebacked and repaired contemporary calf boards, 12mo, (2).
Provenance: 2nd: Henry P**hand/Riding Officer his Book/North Somercotes/Lincolnshire; ink manuscript ownership inscription to recto pastedown.
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