Cookery.- Complete Family-Piece (The): and, Country Gentleman and Farmer's Best Guide, second edition, slight worming at beginning but no loss to sense, a few stains, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, [Bitting p.534; Cagle 628; Maclean p.33; Oxford p.68], for A. Bettesworth [&c.], 1737 § Farley (John) The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper's Complete Assistant..., second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (lightly offset on title), 12 engraved bills of fare, some foxing, contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked preserving old red roan label, corners repaired, [Cagle 676; Maclean p.50; Oxford p.114n; this edition not in Vicaire or Bitting], for J.Scatcherd & J.Whitaker, 1784, 8vo et infra (2)

⁂ The first covers cookery, wine and brewing; hunting, coursing and shooting; gardening and farming. The second work by Farley, the "principal cook at the London Tavern" (title) which was renowned for its good food, was actually written by a hack writer, Richard Johnson, mainly compiled from the works of Hannah Glasse and Elizabeth Raffald.