Oxford copy.- Marnette (Monsieur) The perfect cook: being the most exact directions for the making all kinds of pastes, with the perfect way teaching how to raise, season, and make all sorts of pies, pasties, tarts, and florentines, &c., second edition in English, 3pp. advertisements at end, lacking engraved frontispiece, title torn and repaired, with minor loss, B1 torn and repaired at head, with loss of headline and 2 lines of text recto, A1 (To the reader), contents ff. A2-6, text ff. B1-3 and most ff. in sig. K lower inner corner repaired, To the reader and A2 with loss of a few letters, other ff. with loss of part or whole of the odd letter, final advertisement f. torn and repaired with loss of several letters, trimmed at head, affecting some headlines, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, 20th century polished calf by Lloyd (ink stamp to front endpaper), gilt, spine richly so and with double red morocco labels, little rubbed, g.e., [Cagle 855; Oxford p.28-29 (note); Vicaire 566; Wing M706A], 12mo, Printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Black Bear and Star in sr. Pauls Church-Yard, over against the Little North Door, 1686.

⁂ The Arnold Whitaker Oxford copy of this great cookery rarity. ESTC lists only one copy (NYPL), and this is the only copy we can trace at auction. The first part is a translation of Le Pastissier françois.