Royal-cookery, or, The compleat court-cook : containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery ... : as likewise forty plates, curiously engraven on copper, of the magnificent entertainments at coronations and instalments, of balls, weddings, &c. at court, as likewise of city-feasts : to which are added bills of fare for every month of the year / by Patrick Lamb, Esq., near fifty years master-cook to their late MajestieUs King Charles II, King James II, King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne.
1716
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Title
Royal-cookery, or, The compleat court-cook : containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery ... : as likewise forty plates, curiously engraven on copper, of the magnificent entertainments at coronations and instalments, of balls, weddings, &c. at court, as likewise of city-feasts : to which are added bills of fare for every month of the year / by Patrick Lamb, Esq., near fifty years master-cook to their late MajestieUs King Charles II, King James II, King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne.
Uniform title
Royal cookery
Edition
The second edition, with the addition of several new cuts, and above five hundred new receipts, all disposed alphabetically.
Created/published
London : Printed for J. Nutt, and A. Roper, and to be sold by E. Nutt at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1716.
Description
[8], 302, [10] p., 40 leaves of plates (most folded) : ill. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Lamb, Patrick, author.
Nutt, John, bookseller, publisher.
Nutt, E. (Elizabeth), active 1720-1738, bookseller.
Roper, Abel, 1665-1726, bookseller, publisher.
Nutt, John, bookseller, publisher.
Nutt, E. (Elizabeth), active 1720-1738, bookseller.
Roper, Abel, 1665-1726, bookseller, publisher.
Note
"Price 6s."--Title page.
Signatures: A⁴ B-U⁸ X⁴; K1 missigned 'H'.
Illustrations are of table layouts for feasts, some of which are specifically identified.
Includes index to the plates and instructions to the binder for placing them.
Signatures: A⁴ B-U⁸ X⁴; K1 missigned 'H'.
Illustrations are of table layouts for feasts, some of which are specifically identified.
Includes index to the plates and instructions to the binder for placing them.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue, T91553
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
270- 049q
Folger-specific note
Gathering H misbound after I. In an early leather Cambridge-style inboard binding. Acquired from Ben Kinmont, 2017-11-08. Adopted by Chef Patrick O'Connell, Acquisitions Night 2019.
Folger accession
270049