| Title: |
The Practice of Cookery, Pickling, Preserving, &c. Containing Figures of Dinners, from Five to Nineteen Dishes, also a List of Supper Dishes; also a List of things in Season, for every month of Year, and Directions for Choosing Provisions: with Two Plates, Showing the Method of Placing Dishes upon a Table, and the Manner of Truffing Poultry, &c. By Mrs Frazer... |
| Description: |
Printed for Peter Hill, Edinburgh. 1791. First Edition, xiii,[i blank],254pp., lacks front-free endpaper, 2 copper-engraved plates, cont. half, rubbed, cont. red morocco label to spine. “The author describes herself as ‘sole teacher of these arts in Edinburgh, several years colleague, and afterwards successor, to Mrs M’Iver [sic] deceased’. Her work is clearly based on a book published by her colleague in 1773.”—Maclean. Mclean, p.55; Bitting, p.167; Cagle 689; Oxford, p.120; Vicaire 375. |
