Glasse (Hannah) The Art of cookery, made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published, first edition, title with woodcut floral ornament, list of subscribers, A1 'To the Reader' misbound after title, title, 'To the Reader' and list of subscribers detached, title with lower corner torn and repaired, with loss of 'China-shop' of imprint, and repaired holes with loss of letter 'Y' and partial loss of letter 'E' of 'Cookery', a few marginal repairs, title and last few ff. water-stained (obscuring a few letters on final verso), some staining and spotting elsewhere, lightly browned, contemporary sheep, covers detached, worn, [Bitting pp.186-187; Maclean pp.59-61; Oxford pp.76-77; Vicaire 48], folio, Printed for the author; and sold at Mrs. Ashburn's, a China-Shop, Corner of Fleet-Ditch, 1747.
⁂ A cornerstone for any collection of English cookery books. Our copy conforms to Marcus Crahan's description of the first issue (16pp. preliminaries rather than 20, without notice of second place of sale, without O2 and with the price of 6 [pence] entered by hand on title). The work includes one of the first English recipes for 'Currey the India Way'.
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