[King (William)] The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With some letters to Dr. Lister, and others: Occasion'd principally by the Title of a Book publish'd by the Doctor, being the Works of Apicius Coelius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients, half-title, rather browned at beginning and end, [Bitting p.260; Cagle 794; Maclean p.84; Oxford p.51; Simon BG 908; Vicaire 475], [1708]; The Art of Love: in Imitation of Ovid De arte amandi, 4pp. advertisements at end, [1708], together 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, with engraved portrait of Ovid from the second work bound as frontispiece, engraved bookplate of Godfrey Bosville, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt with tan morocco label, rubbed, joints split, spine ends a little worn, calf peeling from head of joint on upper cover, 8vo, for Bernard Lintott

⁂ The first is a satire on Lister's translation of Apicius, with some amusing observations on food and drink.

Godfrey Bosville, J.P. (1654-1714), of Gunthwaite, South Yorkshire.