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COOKERY. 1665 THE ACCOMPLISHT COOK, OR THE ART AND MYSTERY OF COOKERY, ROBERT MAY 2ND EDITION
Cookery:- May, Robert. 1665 The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery. Wherein the whole Art is revealed in a more easie and perfect Method, then hath been publisht in any Language. The second edition, approved by the fifty five years Experience and Industray of Robert May. Printed by R. Wood for Nath. Brooke. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, folding plate of Tarts Royal opp. p.242 and pies opp. p.256 (folding plates lacking about half of that in the copy in the Bodleian Library), two extra leaves of illustrations bound in opp. pages 246 & 247, as well as vignette woodcut engravings throughout. 20pp of publisher's advertisements bound to verso. Later full calf binding, blind stamped boards & spine, gilt titles to spine, renewed endpapers, the first orig. leaf being frontispiece engraving & final leaf the end of publisher's advertisements & Finis. Ownership bookplate of John Borthwick of Crookston to verso of title page. Contents including baked meats, pyes, tarts, custards, cheesecakes and florentines, as well as directions for carving & sewing meats and fish. An excellent and scarce copy of this early cookbook, one of the first works to make use of turkey & potatoes recently brought from the Americas, as well as one of the first recipe books to logically group recipes. Scarcely seen with folding plates. Small 8vo.
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