Young Lady's companion in cookery (The), And Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, &c., first and only edition, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, professional marginal repairs (including title and worm traces to last few ff.), very small worm trace to inner gutters of sigs. L-N (very occasionally just touching part of one letter), foxing and staining, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, corners restored, covers scuffed, [Bitting p.619; Maclean p.154; Oxford p.64], large 12mo, Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in Pater-Noster Row, J. Hazard against Stationers Hall, W. Bickerton and C. Corbett, without Temple bar, and R. Willock, in Cornhill, 1734.

⁂ Rare in commerce, and scarce in institutions. In the 'Advertisement' we learn that the 'Receipts were Collected by a Gentlewoman who formerly kept a Boarding School; her often being Importun'd by her Friends, for Copies of them, has occasion'd their being published; thereby to oblige her Friends at an easy Expence and save herself much Trouble'.

Provenance: Mary Jenkin, 1738 (ink inscription to front free endpaper).